Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta, long a follower of UFO theories, promised during her campaign that she would release classified government reports on aliens if she were elected. In an interview last year, then-President Donald Trump said he would not disclose - even to his family - what he had learned about aliens. And you know, they did a little bit of research and the answer was no.
And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. The effort to release what is known about UFOs has also found followers in Congress - both Republican and Democrat - who argue that the report will end the stigma that may prevent troops from telling a superior officer about an unexplainable encounter.
Other US military and intelligence officials have detailed the odd sightings, with some of the more credible reports coming from pilots who have personally observed UFOs near military weapons and training facilities from within their cockpits.
In March, Mr Trump's former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe - who previously oversaw all 18 US intelligence agencies - summarised the phenomena, telling Fox News: "Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public. In a CBS News 60 Minutes episode last month, two former Navy pilots discussed seeing an object in the Pacific Ocean that appeared to mirror their movements.
One pilot described it as a "little white Tic-Tac-looking object", referring to the white oblong mints. It didn't have any apparent flight control surfaces to manoeuvre in the way that it was manoeuvring. Research done by the US Defence Department "showed that not two people, four people or six people or 20 people but hundreds and hundreds of people have seen these things, sometimes all at the same time," he argued.
Last December, the former head of the Israeli space directorate at the country's defence ministry told a local newspaper that Mr Trump was on the "verge of revealing" the existence of an intergalactic treaty, but pulled back out of fear of inciting a "mass hysteria".
The far-fetched statement has not been confirmed - by man nor Martian. Why UFO existence is still up in the air The truth is out there? Billy Meier's UFO images. He even traveled to space himself aboard the Columbia shuttle in He continued:.
Who are we? How did we get here? How did we become as we are? How did we develop? How did we civilize? Scientists do not discount the idea of aliens. UFOs are part of the landscape of conspiracy theories, including accounts of abduction by aliens and crop circles created by aliens. I remain skeptical that intelligent beings with vastly superior technology would travel trillion of miles just to press down our wheat.
Diana Pasulka, a professor at the University of North Carolina, notes that myths and religions are both means for dealing with unimaginable experiences. To my mind, UFOs have become a kind of new American religion. But a study of young adults did find that UFO belief is associated with schizotypal personality, a tendency toward social anxiety, paranoid ideas and transient psychosis.
If you believe in UFOs, you might look at what other unconventional beliefs you have. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Chris Impey , University of Arizona.
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