Have you seen unexplained lights in the sky? Weird aircraft flying in inexplicable ways?
You might not be the only one.
The Pentagon has acknowledged for the first time that a program was set up in 2007 to investigate service members’ reports of unidentified flying objects, the New York Times reports.
The program had the backing of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as well as former Sens. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii.
“I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Reid recently told the New York Times. “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”
Funding for the initiative, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, ended in 2012, but some officials say it’s ongoing.
Does the existance of the program mean that UFOs are real? Maybe, but it doesn’t mean the objects are from outer space, M.I.T. astrophysicist Sara Seager told the Times. What “people sometimes don’t get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained.”
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Defence Munitions Crombie in eastern Scotland may grow into a logistics hub from which the Navy "can better facilitate end-to-end sustainment across Europe’s High North region.”
The change came less than a week after Army Times cited the report in an April story about soldier suicide.
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro describes climate change as an "existential threat" for the Navy and Marine Corps.
"I’m not advocating for unkept spec ops beards, but rather, well-groomed facial hair with tight standards."
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'We understand this will not be an easy or a quick fix.'
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