Pentagon Secretly Eyeing UFOs
February 17, 2020
In a deep look at the history of unidentified flying objects, including the US military’s veiled interest in what it prefers to call “unidentified aerial phenomena,” a journalist writing in Issues didn’t come away a believer, adding that “the Pentagon may well have its own good reason for keeping the UFO story alive.” Now seconding this motion, Popular Mechanics reports on its nearly yearlong investigation of the Pentagon’s “secret”—and often confusing—interest, finding that “the government can’t keep its story straight about its involvement with UFO research.”