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US Congress passes stripped-down measure to release UFO records

Just months after US space agency Nasa appointed a research director of unidentified anomalous phenomena, and promised more transparency about what it knows, the US Congress has acted to throttle the flow of information that ultimately reaches the public.

December 15, 2023 By Richard Luscombe

UFO whistleblower doubles down on claims: 'This is a nightmare for me'

Former intelligence officer and UFO whistleblower David Grusch said he's been living a nightmare since making his testimony public over the summer.

December 13, 2023 By Lauren Irwin

Powerful members of Congress are dead-set on killing UFO transparency

Since 2020, no fewer than 10 former government officials, military officers and scientists, along with a former senate majority leader, have alleged (or suggested) publicly that the U.S. government has recovered advanced craft of unknown origin - that is, UFOs.

December 5, 2023 By Marik Von Rennenkampff

Fresh Air Weekend: Understanding AI's biases; UFOs and conspiracy theories

Joy Buolamwini is the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League , an organization that raises awareness about the implications of AI. Her research was also featured in the Netflix documentary Coded Bias. Naima Green/Penguin Random House hide caption Joy Buolamwini is the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League , an...

December 2, 2023

Roswell's International UFO Museum celebrates 5 million visitors

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for December 1 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The International UFO Museum & Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico , is celebrating an out-of-this-world milestone: 5 million visitors. A father and daughter from Roswell became...

December 1, 2023

UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico, reaches 5 million visitors

The International UFO Museum & Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico, is celebrating an out-of-this-world milestone: 5 million visitors

December 1, 2023

UFO watch: House lawmakers blast intelligence community's 'orchestrated attempt' to hide UAP info

close Video House lawmakers demand transparency on UAPs The group of congressional leaders led by Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said the Pentagon and other agencies needed to grant Congress, as well as the American people, more answers to the unidentified flying objects. A bipartisan group of House...

November 30, 2023

The alien hunter: has Harvard's Avi Loeb found proof of extraterrestrial life?

The astrophysicist and professor likes to ruffle feathers - and says his critics are merely jealous. He discusses UFOs, interstellar objects and the risks of his all-consuming search.

November 29, 2023 By Daniel Lavelle

Secret CIA office retrieving UFOs: report

According to a new report from the Daily Mail, a secret CIA office spent two decades recovering UFOs from around the world and has materials from at least nine of them in its possession. The report follows shocking claims that Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch first made on NewsNation in June.

November 28, 2023 By Brian Entin, Liz Jassin

New reporting on CIA's role in UFO retrieval accurate: Coulthart

A new report from the Daily Mail purports that the CIA has a central role in retrieving UFOs, revealing information about a so-called Office of Global Access. The report, citing three anonymous sources, claims the CIA sends U.S. special forces to pick up UFO material that is then handed over to private aerospace...

November 28, 2023 By Tyler Wornell

Why are key Republicans resisting transparency on UFOs?

In July, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of five other senators, announced sweeping legislation to declassify and release government information about unidentified flying objects.

November 28, 2023 By Marik Von Rennenkampff

How the Roswell 'UFO' spurred our modern age of conspiracy theories

If this illustration of a flying saucer is what you think of when you hear "UFO" that's no surprise: Author Garrett Graff says there's a "feedback loop" in pop culture that dictates what an unidentified flying object looks like. Joe McBride/Getty Images hide caption If this illustration of a flying saucer is what you...

November 27, 2023 By Terry Gross

New book details U.S. government's UFO investigations and search for alien life

Since the 1940s, unidentified flying objects have been a part of our nation's cultural phenomena. But for the U.S. government, UFOs have been a mystery and something the military has been investigating for decades. Amna Nawaz discussed that with Garrett Graff, author of the new book, "UFO: The Inside Story of the US...

November 27, 2023 By Amna Nawaz, Stephanie Kotuby, Alexa Gold

How the Roswell 'UFO' spurred our modern age of conspiracy theories

Humans have been spotting - and remarking on - mysterious forms in the sky since the beginning of recorded history, but author Garrett Graff traces the "modern age of UFOs" to a flurry of sightings that occurred around the U.S. following World War II - and to a particular incident that happened in Roswell, N.M.

November 27, 2023 By Terry Gross

What we actually know about aliens, according to science

It came from space, hurtling at tremendous speed: a mystery object, reddish, rocky, shaped like a cigar. Its velocity was so extreme it had to have come from somewhere far away, in the interstellar realm. The astronomers in Hawaii who spotted it in 2017 named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "a messenger from afar arriving...

November 25, 2023 By Joel Achenbach

Turns Out Presidents Are as Hooked on UFOs as the Rest of Us

Early in Ronald Reagan's second term, he asked his Soviet counterpart a seemingly off-the-wall question. Ostensibly, he and Mikhail Gorbachev had come to Lake Geneva for an arms control summit. But on a private walk around the lake, Reagan turned to his Cold War enemy and said: 'What would you do if the United States...

November 17, 2023 By Garrett M. Graff

The U.S. Government UFO Cover-Up Is Real-But It's Not What You Think

There aren't many secrets that John Brennan doesn't know. He spent 25 years in the CIA, became the White House homeland-security adviser, and then returned to the CIA as its director. If a question interested him, he could've commanded legions of analysts, officers, surveillance networks, and tools to find the answer.

November 17, 2023 By Garrett M. Graff

We Have a UFO Problem. What We Don't Have (Yet) Is a Serious Answer.

The U.S. government has studied UFOs on and off now for 80 years, dating back to the dawn of the "flying saucer" age in 1947, when an Idaho businessman flying near Mount Rainer reported seeing bright saucer-like objects moving through the skies at tremendous speeds. It was hardly the first time humans spotted strange...

November 16, 2023 By Garrett M. Graff

Are Aliens Real? We Asked the Pentagon's Outgoing UFO Chief.

Sean Kirkpatrick is not done talking about UFOs. For nearly 18 months, he's been the first head of the Pentagon's fledgling office tasked with investigating what the government calls "unidentified anomalous phenomena," which military pilots have increasingly reported seeing in the skies. Kirkpatrick set up an entire...

November 12, 2023 By By Lara Seligman

'Aliens,' or a foreign power? Pentagon UFO chief says someone is in our backyard

This week, the director of the U.S. government's UFO analysis office stated that there is "evidence" of concerning unidentified flying object activity "in our backyard." According to physicist Sean Kirkpatrick, who heads the congressionally-mandated All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, this alarming UFO activity can...