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A former Pentagon official by the name of Luis Elizondo recently told the New York Times that the federal government has been actively investigating UFO sightings since 2007. He went on record to say that the Department of Defense’s shadow ops mission, known as the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was developed to find out more about the strange objects in the sky that some believe could be our link to intelligent life on other planets. Although the Pentagon says the program was terminated in 2012, Elizondo claims it is still very much active, just not widely funded.
Last year, a study conducted by Sam Monfort, a doctoral student in Human Factors and Applied Cognition at George Mason University, found that UFO sightings are at an all-time high in the United States. At the time of the report, the data shows there have been more than 104,000 documented sightings in the last century. But in the past 30 years, people have been reporting these bizarre flying objects with rabid enthusiasm. There is now an estimated 2,500 UFO sighting per 10 million people, according to the report.
Interesting UFO Video Footage Has Emerged
It was just this week that a group of people traveling down a busy stretch of road in the Northern State of Baja California witnessed a uniquely shaped UFO from up above. The mysterious object, which appears more vertical than the traditional saucer shape, was, of course, captured on video. It has been making its rounds on the Internet, being discussed on a number of news aggregation sites and message boards by both believers and skeptics alike. Some are calling it a