‘It only takes one to be real and it changes humanity for ever’: what if we’ve been lied to about UFOs? This is exactly what the office of the director of national intelligence in the US released in 2021. Its report Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena detailed that the US Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena task force was investigating 144 UAP reports made between 2004 and 2021, mostly by military personnel. It also released three declassified videos of some of these UAPs in action. “There is still a stigma around this topic; people are so frightened about discussing it,” he says.
