Pentagon releases new batch of UFO files: "Did you see that?"
The Pentagon on Friday released a new batch of documents and images related to UFOs, the fifth disclosure in recent months about the strange encounters.
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The Pentagon on Friday released a new batch of documents and images related to UFOs, the fifth disclosure in recent months about the strange encounters.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement that the documents "have long fueled justified speculation — and it's time the American people see it for themselves."
The Defense Department has released 162 files on "unidentified anomalous phenomena." CBS News New York's Dick Brennan reports.
A self-describe "UFOlogist" brought the desiccated figures in front of the Mexican congress last September, claiming they had been recovered near Peru's ancient Nazca Lines and dated over 700 years old.
Jamie Maussan, a longtime UFO researcher, was joined in Mexico's Congress by a former U.S. Navy pilot, who later dismissed Maussan's "unsubstantiated stunt."
A former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower and two pilots testified before Congress about the strange, seemingly inexplicable objects.
NASA officials stressed that the group found no evidence that UAPs are "extraterrestrial" in nature, but said some of the objects cannot be explained.
A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.
A Harvard professor believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014.
The 16-member independent study group is set to release a report detailing the findings of its investigation later this summer.
The sightings are concentrated off the East Coast and West Coast of the U.S., in the Middle East and in the area of the South China Sea.
No debris from either object was found, officials said.
The latest one was taken down over Lake Huron on Sunday. CBS2's Tim McNicholas has the latest.
But there's no evidence so far of alien life, the Defense Department said Friday.
Most of the incidents the task force reviewed were reported in the last two years, according to the report, which is a preliminary version of an assessment.
The search for extraterrestrial activity is getting some credibility.
"We may not be alone." So says a former Pentagon official who headed up a program to research UFOs.
There were multiple reports of a UFO sighting Saturday night in the Bronx, which has people talking -- two such people were Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton.
Craig Carton was rolling along on the LIE with his wife and kids in the car. It was a normal situation. The kids were bouncing off the walls while Cragie was locked into a Nationals baseball game
Have you seen an unidentified flying object over New York City? Well, there is someone to call!
Did you see it? It was a bizarre, glowing red-hot streak in the sky -- right at sunset Wednesday -- moving briskly behind the Manhattan skyline.
