Talking heads chattering about Obama's brief UFO segment

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Reggie Watts to Barack Obama: What's w/ Dem Aliens?

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xp6Ph5iTIgc

(Daily Blast) Obama Opens Up About US Government's Knowledge of Aliens, UFOs

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6KtUbzheW-o

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UFOs are about to make their way to the U.S. Senate. Here's what to know.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-...ow-rcna973

INTRO: U.S. intelligence agencies are expected to deliver a report on “unidentified aerial phenomena” to Congress next month, sparking renewed interest and speculation into how the government has handled sightings of mysterious flying objects — and if there's any worldly explanation for them.

The unclassified report, compiled by the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense, aims to make public what the Pentagon knows about unidentified flying objects and data analyzed from such encounters.

While UFOs have been part of American mythology for decades, this report is different. Legitimate debates over UFO sightings have gained traction in recent years after several leaked photos and videos from the U.S. Navy appeared to show mysterious flying objects in American airspace... (MORE - details)
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UFO answers coming soon? US government to report on mysterious sightings
https://www.space.com/ufo-report-militar...next-month

EXCERPT: . . . And it is indeed a national security issue, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told Whitaker. "Anything that enters an airspace that's not supposed to be there is a threat," Rubio said. After all, the reported UAPs might be some kind of advanced aircraft developed by an adversary nation such as Russia or China. (Mellon told Whitaker that the vehicles were definitely not developed by the Pentagon.)

That's not the only possible explanation, of course. For example, experts have also suggested that the sightings might arise from issues with the Navy jets' instruments (although pilots report seeing the UAPs with the naked eye as well). And then there's the idea that the UAPs could represent some sort of alien technology. Occam's Razor may relegate this idea toward the bottom of the list of possibilities, but it remains there nonetheless.... (MORE - details)

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Definitely a step in the progress of taking ufos seriously. Now if only we can drop the "aliens from space" assumption and just accept the mystery of ufos and usos:

"The Weird History of Unidentified Submerged Objects"
It’s not just UFOs out there.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/militar...e-objects/