Whether you dismiss UFOs as a fantasy or believe that extraterrestrials are visiting the Earth and flying rings around our most sophisticated aircraft, the U.S. government has been taking them seriously for quite some time.
“Project Blue Book”, commissioned by the U.S. Air Force, studied reports of “flying saucers” but closed down in 1969 with a conclusion that they did not present a threat to the country.
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As the years went by UFO reports continued to be made and from 2007 to 2012 the Aerospace Threat Identification Program, set up under the sponsorship of Senator Harry Reid, spent $22 million looking into the issue once again.
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Later, the Pentagon formed a “working group for the study of unidentified aerial phenomena”.
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This study, staffed with personnel from Naval Intelligence, was not aimed at finding extraterrestrials, but rather at determining whether craft were being flown by potential U.S. opponents with new technologies.
In June, 2022, in a report issued by the Office of the Director for National Intelligence and based on the observations made by members of the U.S. military and intelligence  from 2004 to 2021 it was stated that at that time there was, with one exception, not enough information to explain the 144 cases of what were renamed as “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” examined.
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The report noted that in 80 cases the UFOs were tracked by multiple devices.
Unusual trajectories and flight characteristics were reported in 18 cases.
Only one case could be explained, and that was a deflating weather balloon.
The report listed five categories into which the UFO reports might fall: balloons, drones, trash or birds, natural weather phenomena, and new technologies, either U.S. or from countries such as China and Russia.
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It came to no conclusions as to whether UFOs represented visits from extraterrestrial intelligent life.
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Warning: these questons and answers are not all representative of the way questions will be asked and answered in the pilot, because some questions are compound and some answers do not include citations.

Q: What was the name of the first serious study of UFOs conducted by the U.S. government?
A: That  would be Project Blue Book.

Q: What was the conclusion of Project Blue Book regarding the threat posed by UFOs?
A: that they did not constitute a threat to national security.

Q: How many cases out of the 144 examined in the most recent reported study did the U.S. government manage to explain, and what was the explanation?
A: Only one case, and it was a weather balloon.

Q: The recent study cited was put together by which organization?
A: the office was staffed by members of U.S. Naval Intelligence.

Q: What was an important point about 80 of the 144 cases examined in the recent report?
A: that in 80 out of 144 cases the objects or phenomena were tracked by multiple systems.

Q: What was another characteristic of recently reported UFOs behavior?
A: unusual flight trajectories and flight characteristics.

Q: Which foreign countries were generally considered to possibly possess the technology evidenced by some of the UFOs?
A: China and Russia were cited as countries which might possess such technologies.

Q: Besides unusual weather phenomena and foreign technologies, into what other categories could UFOs be placed?
A: balloons, drones, and trash or birds.

Q: What was the conclusion of the latest study as to the identification of UFOs?
A: They had not enough information to identify what 143 of the 144 objects studied were.

Q: What did the latest report say about possible extraterrestrial intelligent life piloting UFOs?
A: the report came to no conclusions on the subject of extraterrestrials.

Q: A new abbreviation for UFOs has been adopted, what is it?
A: UAP, unidentified aerial phenomena.