UFO files spanning decades are released by Defense Department

gov drop·NPR Science·11d ago·7/10— significant, well-sourced

The U.S. Defense Department released documents spanning decades describing reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, including Cold War-era rotating saucers and recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects.

Key claims

–Defense Department released multi-decade UAP documents
–Cold War reports of rotating saucers included
–Recent reports of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air

Object type: rotating saucers, metallic elliptical objects

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