The Pentagon is set to begin the most expansive look yet at the military’s response to “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” in an inspector general investigation announced this week.
The effort will build on a provision couched in the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act that ordered spy agencies and the Defense Department to report to lawmakers what they know about the phenomena within six months. Last year, the Pentagon released videos of incidents from November 2004 and two from January 2015. In the Navy footage from more than a decade ago, two F/A-18 Hornet pilots chase a cylindrical object that moves at high speed with ease. Pilots continued chasing the object across the horizon and remarked that several more are visible.
