On the front page of its Sunday edition, the New York Times ran an attention-grabbing story about a secret Pentagon program established in 2007 to investigate UFO sightings. The key items of intrigue from the companion article posted on the Times‘ website on Saturday are videos showing an encounter in 2004 by two Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets over the Pacific Ocean with an unknown object that seems to defy the known laws of aerodynamics.
Pentagon Confirms Existence of Secretive UFO Program
Key Takeaways:
- The New York Times exposed a secret 2007 Pentagon program that investigated UFO sightings, officially confirming the authenticity of videos showing a 2004 Navy encounter.
- Navy F/A-18 pilots witnessed an oblong, white, "Tic-Tac"-shaped craft that displayed extraordinary acceleration and maneuverability, defying known aerodynamic principles.
- This marked the first time the U.S. government acknowledged bona fide physical evidence of "unidentified aerial phenomena," which, despite years of study, remained unexplained and led to the program's defunding.
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