There are those who believe that the government actually ceased investigating UFO sightings with the official closure of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book (the real program, not the excellent television series inspired by it, the second season thereof which is currently in development) in 1970, upon which the determination was made that there was nothing to the whole thing, nothing to see here, move along now, folks. Only nobody told the UFOs that, nor did the *cough* official closure of the case stop people from reporting their post-1970 UFO encounters. Some of those encounters came from crackpots, sure, but not a few of them came from credible witnesses like military personnel. If you believe that the government ever stopped being interested in the UFO phenomenon, we can now report that it has become interested again.
Senator Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was one of three congressmen recently briefed on the subject of encounters between the US Navy and UFOs. Said a Navy spokesperson: “Navy officials did indeed meet with interested congressional members and staffers on Wednesday to provide a classified brief on efforts to understand and identify these threats to the safety and security of our aviators…Navy officials will continue to keep interested congressional members and staff informed. Given the classified nature of these discussions, we will not comment on the specific information provided in these…briefings.” Senator Harry Reid made an official request in 2017 that the Pentagon begin a new program to study the phenomenon.