UFOs: A Century of Mysteries

0:00UFOs have gripped imaginations since 1947, when pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted nine shiny objects zipping near Mount Rainier, sparking. The first big wave of U.S. sightings. Just days later, debris in Roswell, New Mexico had folks buzzing about a crash flying disc, though officials called it a weather balloon. That kick-thoff project sign, later Blue Book, where the Air Force probed over 12,000 reports to 1969, finding no alien, threats. Hollywood fueled the fire from the 50s onward, dropping flicks like the flying saucer, close encounters, ET, and Independence Day. Meanwhile, weird events kept popping up, like radar blips over Washington DC in 1952, light-stalling cars and level land Texas in, 1957, and glowing orbs above Phoenix in 1997. Area 51 became conspiracy-central after its secret build in 1955, while military folks chased lights in England's Rendlesham.

1:01Forest in 1980, leaked navy videos from 2015, like gimbal and go-fast, showed odd objects defying wind and physics, reigniting debates. Fast forward to recent years, the Pentagon stood up a UAP task force in 2020. Congress held hearings in 2022 after 50 years, and NASA launched a study calling for better data. Then in 2023, ex-office David Grush claimed the government hides crash-craft for reverse engineering, but officials shot that down. The latest Pentagon report from the all-domain anomaly resolution office wraps nearly a century of probes, no proof of extraterrestrials or secret. Tech, with interest still sky-high, expect more digs into the sky mysteries ahead. I'm Corey with the story, and you've been listening to Durham News today, AI-powered local news.