Former US President Donald Trump asked for a report into "unidentified aerial phenomena", with the results set to be published in June. It may trigger a huge debate on UFOs.
2021 is set to be the year of the UFO thanks to Donald Trump's out of this world legacy to lift the lid on alien activity.
He may have left office in a storm of controversy but he could be remembered light years into the future as the first US President to take ETs seriously.
One of his final acts was an order in the Covid-19 relief bill for the director of national intelligence to submit a report into "unidentified aerial phenomena" or "anomalous aerial vehicles" – aka, flying saucers.
When the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies release the data in June it is set to trigger a global debate on unidentified flying objects. Highly-regarded business magazine Forbes predicts the planet is about to experience the "year of the UFO".
The ex-President's former director of national security John Ratcliffe said the report will include previously unknown sightings from "all over the world".
Part of the mission is to determine if any unexplained objects sighted have links to adversarial foreign governments and the threat they pose to US military assets and installations.
The US set up a £16million advanced aerospace threat identification programme inside the Pentagon in 2007 to probe mysterious craft.
Though officially disbanded in 2012 it was said to have continued its work.
Former military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who ran the Pentagon programme until 2017, said: “For the first time the government is finally taking this topic seriously. The evidence is overwhelming at this point.
"We're dealing with some very advanced technology that, from a national security standpoint, is very significant. I don't think this is a US phenomenon. It is a global phenomenon. Is it a threat? My response is, it could be, so we'd better find out what it is.''
US astronomer Avi Loeb said all sightings should be properly investigated. "It shouldn't be a matter of national security but a matter of science", he said.
“Let's get to the bottom of this.”
Videos captured by three US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet jet fighters and released last year (2020) showed UFOs moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible manoeuvres.
One was shot in 2004 and the others in January 2015.
In the two later clips, US Navy pilots can be heard expressing disbelief at what they were witnessing.
Drafted Pentagon reports are said to include a photo of a silver cube-shaped' UFO emerging from the ocean and soaring through the sky captured from his cockpit by a military pilot on his mobile phone in 2018 off the US east coast.
Another extremely clear' snap reportedly shows an unidentifiable triangular aircraft emerging from the ocean in front of a Hornet fighter pilot.
The reports are also said to contain an admission that extraterrestrial origins for the objects cannot be ruled out.
Marco Rubio, vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said: “My thing is very simple – we don't know what that stuff is that's flying over the top of our installations. Let's find out.”
