Ufos

unidentified aerial phenomena Nov. 17, 2021

The Defense Department May Be Getting an Office to Investigate UFOsLawmakers are debating this week over Sen. Gillibrand’s plan to create an Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office to better assess UFO sightings.

By Matt Stieb

the truth is in here July 5, 2021

Pentagon Releases UFO Report: Here’s What We KnowA guide to the government’s unclassified report on unidentified flying objects, which was released on Friday.

By Matt Stieb and Chas Danner

ufos July 3, 2021

How to Decipher the Pentagon’s UFO ReportThe crucial, missing context for what pilots might actually be seeing — and why the military is okay with letting us think it might be aliens.

By Jeff Wise

just asking questions June 29, 2021

How the Pentagon Can Improve the Way It Studies UFOsHarvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb lays out the steps U.S. officials should take to ensure science is at the center of our revamped approach to UFOs.

By Matt Stieb

far out May 19, 2021

Little Green Men After Our HeartsWhy do we care so much about aliens?

By Sarah Jones

ufos Mar. 22, 2021

Pentagon Report to Detail ‘Difficult to Explain’ UFO Sightings, Says RatcliffeThe former director of national intelligence said military pilots and satellites have recorded “a lot more sightings than have been made public.”

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

extraterrestrials Jan. 2, 2021

Trump and UFOs: The Greatest HitsHow the president handled the incredible extraterrestrial developments that broke while he was in office.

By Matt Stieb

tomorrow Dec. 17, 2020

Senior Government Officials Keep Saying That UFOs and Aliens Are RealIsrael’s former defense chief talked about a “galactic federation.” Now a former CIA head is speaking out.

By Eve Peyser

ufos July 24, 2020

The Pentagon Has Reportedly Found ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’The latest UFO report from the Times says a defense contractor briefed the Department of Defense on otherworldly vehicles in March.

By Adam K. Raymond

ufos June 23, 2020

Senate Intelligence Committee Votes to Allow Public to See UFO RecordsThe committee endorsed a major step in the recent push to reform the UFO reporting process, with the public getting a look as soon as 2021.

By Matt Stieb

aliens May 15, 2020

The Truth Is (Still) Out ThereAre aliens among us? Let’s examine the evidence.

By Sarah Jones

ufos Apr. 27, 2020

Pentagon Officially Releases Three Videos of ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’Though the three videos were already public in some form, the DOD’s decision to release them cements a military consensus to take UFOs more seriously.

By Matt Stieb

ufos Jan. 6, 2020

About Those Mystery Drone Swarms Over Colorado …It is ominous that so many robot planes can operate for so long, over so huge an area, without anyone — even the authorities — knowing what they are.

By Jeff Wise

ufos Jan. 2, 2020

Amy Klobuchar Hints at Declassifying UFO Info If ElectedAmy for Area 51.

By Adam K. Raymond

ufos Dec. 19, 2019

Navy Pilot Who Filmed a UFO Speaks: ‘It Wasn’t Behaving by the Laws of Physics’Chad Underwood, the Navy pilot who filmed the infamous ‘Tic Tac’ UFO video released a few years ago, gives his first-ever interview.

By Matthew Phelan

ufos Sept. 18, 2019

Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO on This Day in 1973Carter promised to come clean on UFO intel if elected president, but like all of them, he backtracked.

By Ed Kilgore

ufos Aug. 7, 2019

Bernie Sanders Pledges to Reveal UFO Evidence If Elected PresidentHe told Joe Rogan that if there’s anything to report, he’ll do it on Rogan’s podcast.

By Adam K. Raymond

space June 20, 2019

Lawmakers Are ‘Coming Out of the Woodwork’ to Be Briefed on UFOs: ReportMark Warner was one of three senators to hear a briefing on UFOs from the Pentagon on Wednesday, as lawmaker interest in the topic increases.

By Matt Stieb

space May 27, 2019

Navy Pilots Were Seeing UFOs on an Almost Daily Basis in 2014 and 2015: ReportAccording to some Navy veterans, UFOs were consistently being sighted in the airspace from Virginia to Florida in 2014 and 2015.

By Matt Stieb

satire Apr. 27, 2019

As 2020 Race Heats Up, Navy Admits We May Be Surrounded by AliensNavy pilots keep encountering unidentified, hyperadvanced aircraft. And that isn’t the only fascinating story that got buried by Trump’s antics.

By Eric Levitz

select all Mar. 21, 2018

This Computer Scientist Thinks He’s Figured Out How to Talk to AliensTalking to Stephen Wolfram, author of Wolfram Alphra, a “universal” programming language that informed the alien communication in the movie Arrival.

By Tim Urban

select all Mar. 21, 2018

A Sociologist Unpacks Our Fixation With AliensWhy do we imagine extraterrestrials as little gray abductors? Joseph O. Baker explains.

By Katie Heaney

select all Mar. 21, 2018

Harry Reid on What the Government Knows About UFOsThe former Senate majority leader is definitely a truther.

By Eric Benson

select all Mar. 20, 2018

13 Reasons to Believe Aliens Are RealHow seriously should you take those recent reports of UFOs? Ask the Pentagon. Or read this primer for the SETI-curious.

Mar. 14, 2018

Here’s a Video of a Navy Jet Encountering a UFO“What the f*ck is that thing?”

By Adam K. Raymond

Jan. 30, 2018

The Eternal Recurrence of Dennis Kucinich, Candidate for OfficeYes, he’s back. In this incarnation he’s a Fox Democrat running for governor of Ohio.

By Ed Kilgore

Dec. 26, 2017

What the New York Times UFO Report Actually RevealsThe takeaway appeared to be “flying saucers are real.” But a closer reading suggests a murkier proposition.

By Jeff Wise

Dec. 16, 2017