World UFO Day is being celebrated amid a surge in sightings and government studies on unidentified flying objects.
FILE - A sign directs travelers to the start of the"1947 UFO Crash Site Tours" in Roswell, N.M., June 10, 1997. Its date of July 2nd has its roots in the so-called Roswell incident on July 2, 1947. A former U.S.
The Air Force released another report addressing UFO claims in 1997, stating that alleged alien bodies found near Roswell were just dummies used in parachute tests. The dummies had a skeleton of aluminum or steel, skin of latex or plastic, a cast aluminum skull, and an instrument cavity in the torso and head.
Ronald Moultrie, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said during a 2022 hearing that the Pentagon was trying to destigmatize the issue and encourage pilots and other military personnel to report anything unusual they see.Asked whether the U.S. government had information about extraterrestrial life, Grusch said the U.S. likely has been aware of “nonhuman” activity since the 1930s.
Julieta Fierro, researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, was among those to express skepticism, saying that many details about the figures “made no sense.”
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