
officials didn’t necessarily dream of meeting extraterrestrials in their investigations: As the Cold War with the Soviet Union got underway, American leaders worried that UFOs represented a threat from a rival nation. ( How the Pentagon learned to start worrying and investigate UFOs.) The modern era of UFO sightings and investigations started after World War II with a sudden surge of unexplained reports. Such reports have been surfacing for decades. “In addition to recent claims by a whistleblower,” a committee spokesperson said, “reports continue to surface regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena.” government calls them, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAPs). Congress remained interested-and, in June, the House Oversight Committee announced it will hold a hearing on UFOS-or as the U.S.

The Pentagon denied the report, but the U.S.

Unidentified flying objects are much in the news lately after a whistleblower claimed that the United States had discovered the remains of a crashed alien spacecraft. There’s something strange going on in the sky, but what?
