In rare hearing, Pentagon reports rise in UFOs in past 20 years
Washington (AFP) - An increasing number of unidentified flying objects have been reported in the sky over the past 20 years, a top US defense official told lawmakers Tuesday in the first public hearing on UFOs in half a century. "Since the early 2000s we have seen an increasing number of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft or objects in military controlled training areas and training ranges and other designated airspace," Scott Bray, deputy director of Naval intelligence, told a House security panel. Bray attributed the rise to efforts by the US military to "destigmatize the act of repor...