UFO Sighting Stigma Is Gone as U.S. Urges Pilots to Speak Up
- Government encourages reporting ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’
- Intelligence report doesn’t suggest aliens are visiting Earth
An unidentified flying object is tracked on a Navy pilot’s heads-up display in 2015.
Source: Department of Defense
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The U.S. government wants to take reports of unidentified flying objects more seriously based on unexplained sightings reported by military pilots over the years, according to a new intelligence report that made no mention of theories that aliens may be visiting.
The Director of National Intelligence said in the findings released Friday that pilots will be encouraged to report “unexplained aerial phenomena” -- the government’s preferred term for UFO sightings -- in an effort to collect additional data. That’s a change from the government’s previous stance, which often involved ignoring or downplaying the phenomena.