Navy making it easier for personnel to report and study UFO sightings

Published April 24, 2019 3:48am ET



The Navy is updating its UFO protocol in a bid to destigmatize reporting of unknown phenomena and come up with a process to analyze the sightings.

The military is now referring to the sightings as “unexplained aerial phenomena” rather than “unidentified flying objects.” The Navy is not suggesting that people are seeing alien life, per se, but said in a statement to Politico that there have been enough strange sightings to warrant investigation into unusual phenomena seen in the air.

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