UFOs, or, as the Defense Department now terms them, “unidentified aerial phenomena,” or UAP, have become big news inside the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.

In June, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unclassified “Preliminary Assessment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” disclosing that in the last few years, the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force investigated 144 different sightings of unidentified and mysterious airborne objects. Most striking, the report revealed that in several of these incidents, objects demonstrated “unusual movement patterns or flight characteristics.”