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The Pentagon UFO Report, (or colloquially known as the Pentagon UFO Report) is a United States federally mandated assessment summarizing information regarding unidentified flying objects (UFOs), also known as unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAPs). On June 25, 2021, a nine-page preliminary assessment was issued.
A US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes over Fargo, North Dakota. According to US Air Force officer Edward J. Ruppelt, this was one of three cases, along with the Mantell incident and Chiles-Whitted encounter, that shifted the Air Force's attitude about UFO reports leading to the creation of Project Blue Book. [91] [92]
UFO reports, Parliamentary questions, and letters from members of the public were released on August 5, 2010, to the UK National Archives. "In one letter included in the files, a man alleges Churchill ordered a coverup of a WW II-era UFO encounter involving the Royal Air Force". [137] [131] Reports of UFO sightings continue.
A UFO (or unidentified flying object) is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. UFO also may refer to: Computer technology
The UFO Verdict: Examining the Evidence. Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-338-2. Graff, Garrett (2023). UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here – and Out There. New York: Avid Reader Press. ISBN 9781982196776. OCLC 1407420009. Ufology studies. Gillmor, Daniel S.; Condon, Edward U. (1970).
The term also has the contextual tinge of the word's other definition, "an increased state of agitation." Edward Ruppelt , an Air Force officer who would go on to be part of governmental UFO investigations, wrote that "in Air Force terminology a 'flap' is a condition, or situation, or state of being of a group of people characterized by an ...
While unusual sightings have been reported in the sky throughout history, UFOs became culturally prominent after World War II, escalating during the Space Age.Studies and investigations into UFO reports conducted by governments (such as Project Blue Book in the United States and Project Condign in the United Kingdom), as well as by organisations and individuals have occurred over the years ...
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is an office within the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense that investigates unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and other phenomena in the air, sea, and/or space and/or on land: sometimes referred to as "unidentified aerial phenomena" or "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP).