In December , Donald Trump signed the coronavirus relief and government financial backing bill into law . This meant   that US intelligence service services , from the FBI to the CIA , would later be thrust to distinguish Congress everything they bonk about   Unidentified Flying Objects ( UFOs ) .

They will also be ask to name " possible aerospace or other   threats posed by the unidentified aerial phenomena to   national surety , and an assessment of whether this   unidentified aerial phenomenon activity may be assign to one or more foreign adversaries , " which all sound quite spicy .

In the run up to the release , expected in just a few shortsighted weeks , the US has been going through UFO fever . As well asnew leaked footagefrom the US Navy showing a foreign blob moving in an strange radiation pattern , several high - ranking US official have been a lot more gabby than usual about objects going whoosh in the sky , include President Obama .

In an consultation with theLate Late Show ,   the former president was asked by band leader   Reggie Watts if he had any theory about UFO or unidentified aerial phenomenon ( UAPs ) .

“ When it comes to alien , there are some things I just ca n’t assure you on air , ” he replied . “ The truth is that when I came into office , I asked . I was like , ‘ Is there a research laboratory somewhere where we ’re keeping the foreign specimens and space ship ? ' ”

“ They did a little bit of research and the answer was no . "

“ But what is true , and I ’m in reality being serious here … there ’s footage and records of object in the skies that we do n’t know exactly what they are ,   we ca n’t explicate how they moved , their flight . They did not have an easily explainable approach pattern . ”

“ I think people still take seriously   attempt to investigate and figure out what [ UFOs are ] , but I have nothing to report to you today . ”

Elsewhere , military intelligence officer   Luis Elizondo , who spent fourth dimension working at the Pentagon ’s   Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program , tease what they had receive which will shortly be released to congress .

" Imagine a technology that can do 6 - to-700 g - forces , that can fly at 13,000 nautical mile an 60 minutes , that can bilk radio detection and ranging and that can aviate through melody and body of water and possibly space,“he told CBS , in an interview where he said , for most cases , there are round-eyed explanations .

" And oh , by the way , has no obvious signs of propulsion , no wings , no ascendancy airfoil and yet still can dare the raw effects of Earth ’s gravity . That ’s precisely what we ’re seeing . "

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