He quit heading the Pentagon’s UFO office. Now a report of his has shaken up ufology
Sean Kirkpatrick has faced threats for his work – and a new report concluding no evidence UAPs represented extraterrestrial tech has sent ufology into a tailspin
‘It looked like a UFO’: hiker discovers mysterious silver monolith in Powys
Discovery follows spate of monoliths around the world in 2020, which conspiracy theorists speculated could have been the work of aliens
US not hiding aliens or UFO technology from the public, Pentagon says
Defense department releases report calling deluge of reports and claims about government reverse-engineering tech ‘inaccurate’
January 2024
On my radar
On my radar: Jake Shears’s cultural highlights
Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending
December 2023
US Congress passes stripped-down measure to release UFO records
The US government should tell the public what it knows about UFOs
Trevor Timm
November 2023
‘We’ve uncovered some things’: Pentagon’s UFO online reporting tool launches
Move signals US government slowly opening up about what it knows, or doesn’t, about unidentified anomalous phenomena
September 2023
‘From sensationalism to science’: Nasa appoints UFO research chief – video
Nasa is to engage a global army of citizen sky watchers to help it solve the mystery of unidentified anomalous phenomena
Nasa appoints UFO research chief and plans to crowdsource help with sightings
Agency aims to eliminate stigma that surrounds reporting of sightings and ‘shift conversation from sensationalism to science’
Mexican senate hears testimony on extraterrestrial life: ‘We are not alone’
Alleged remains of ‘non-human’ mummies presented at hearing, in country’s first official event on UFOs
August 2023
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb: ‘UFOs should be the subject of mainstream inquiry. Science must bring clarity’
The Harvard scientist on his search for alien technology, academic jealousy and why we must fund space exploration
Super-intelligent aliens are going to destroy humanity? Whatever
Joel Snape
I’ve thought long and hard about UFOs and interstellar predators, and I know I should be terrified. However …
Today in Focus
How the search for UFOs reached the US Congress
The quest to discover whether or not we’re alone in the universe has become an obsession for many Americans. Some of them are elected officials, reports Adam Gabbatt in Washington DC
UFOs back in spotlight as ‘surreal’ Washington hearing buoys believers
A whistleblower has accused the US of a vast cover-up – and claims of ‘non-human’ life suggest the unexplained aerial phenomena issue is not going away
