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Podcast: Science Quickly
Episode: The Government's Former UFO Hunter Has a Lot to Say
Description: For the last decade, reports of UFO sightings have filled headlines and news broadcasts, and some of these have from a surprising place—the Pentagon. Former defense officials have made a number of claims about, and released videos of, strange sightings made by military pilots.These days, the objects are officially called “UAPs”—unidentified anomalous phenomena.But regardless of the new branding, Congress has demanded answers on them, especially after one former official this summer claimed that he believed that the U.S. possessed “nonhuman” spacecraft and possibly their “dead pilots.”We talk to the former in...