Renewed US interest could produce some fascinating hearings, but the focus should be on the quality not just the quantity of reported sightings
| There’s renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon and it’s coming from an unexpected source: the United States Congress. The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into a 2004 incident where US Navy pilots flying with the USS Nimitz strike group encountered, chased and filmed fast-moving unidentified objects. Reliable sources say at least two of the military pilots involved have already been interviewed, and a radar operator was subsequently invited to get in touch. |  The Guardian 10-15-18 |
In parallel, the House Armed Services Committee is taking an interest. Records from April show the committee received a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) briefing on the Pentagon’s UFO project, the cryptically-named AATIP. We know so little about AATIP that there’s even dispute over whether the acronym stands for Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program or Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. The very existence of the project caused a sensation, because until the New York Times broke the story in December 2017, the US government claimed it had not investigated UFOs since the 1960s when sightings were looked at in a study called Project Blue Book.
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Walt Disney, Reuters, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, IBM, Ernst & Young and Rio Tinto. Other speakers at the conference included 
and Tony Blair.
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spoke about UFOs, I discussed space, astrobiology and the 
programme. Specifically, I spoke about the search for extraterrestrial life being a new space race where innovative thinking and competitiveness were being demonstrated - the key themes of the conference. I also mentioned some financial implications that would arise from the discovery of extraterrestrial life and suggested that the business community might want to give some thought to this. The final panel members were theoretical physicist Michio Kaku and Zaghloul El Naggar, Professor of Earth Science and Geology, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs. The panel was moderated by John Quelch, Dean of the China Europe International Business School.
In truth, the panel discussion was about exposing business leaders to an interesting, topical and controversial subject they might not have thought about, but which might have something to teach them about hindrances to innovation. In his keynote speech, Bill Clinton made a remark which caused particular excitement with some people in the UFO community. He mentioned recent scientific discoveries relating to the human genome, sub-atomic particles and astrophysics. On the latter, in relation to discovering planets like Earth, he said, " ... and I don't have to tell you what the implications of that would be, if it turned out to be true". Click 
has released another batch of UFO files, as part of an ongoing three-year collaboration between the MoD and the National Archives. This latest release runs to over 5000 pages of documentation and includes sighting reports, correspondence from the public and papers discussing how to respond to questions about UFOs that were raised in Parliament.
to suppress the truth about a spectacular UFO sighting witnessed by the crew of an RAF aircraft returning from a mission. The UFO had, apparently, been capable of extraordinary speeds and manoeuvres and yet showed no hostile intent. It clearly wasn't some new German secret weapon. Churchill, apparently, feared the details would cause public panic and shatter people's religious faith. He ordered that the details should be classified.
So while we can't verify the story that Churchill ordered a UFO cover-up, we know that he and senior figures in the military and the intelligence community were actively discussing the mystery.
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