UFO

What do we actually know about UFOs, and what do we hope to learn? Today we’ll take a look at the history of UFOs in America, military secrecy around sightings, and what to expect going forward in the effort to explain these phenomena.

That's up from 143 incidents in a report issued in 2021. Officials partly credited reducing stigma around the issue for the new reports, many of which are older and went unmentioned at the time.

Luis Elizondo used to run a Pentagon office that investigated unidentified flying objects seen by the U.S. military. He says his staff often could not explain what it saw.