Think You Saw a UFO? The Pentagon Wants to Hear From You
- Defense Department sets up website for unexplained sightings
- Effort comes amid calls for openness, accusations of coverup
The Pentagon is launching to detail its work investigating unexplained objects in America’s skies.
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The world’s largest military says it’s serious about investigating unexplained objects in America’s skies and will ask service members — and eventually ordinary people — to submit what they think might be alien sightings.
That reporting feature will be included on a new a website — www.aaro.mil — that the Pentagon is launching as part of efforts to detail its work to get to the bottom of a slew of incidents in recent years. Those encounters have confounded the national security establishment and provoked accusations that the government is covering up what it knows.