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             Trump, Senators Have                        accounts are so common, that in April the U.S. Politico reports that the UFO sightings are a hot
                                                         Navy drafted new guidelines for pilots and other topic on Capitol Hill, with one former
              Been Briefed on UFO                        personnel    to    report   encounters    with government official saying, “There are people

                                                         “unidentified aircraft,” telling Politico that it coming out of the woodwork.” Maybe they
                         Sightings
                                                         “investigates each and every report” and takes should plan an X-Files marathon after all.
                                                         these “very seriously.”
                                                                 When someone in the Navy spots some      President Trump on UFOs
          While you were busy watching reruns of
                                                         flying object that they can’t quite identify,  they
          Ancient Aliens, Alf, and The X-Files, a group of
                                                         are reported to what The New York Times calls
          U.S. senators, including the vice chair of the                                                 President Donald  Trump doesn't seem to be a
                                                         the “Pentagon’s shadowy” program, the
          Senate Intelligence committee, were sitting in a                                               believer of aliens or UFOs flying through Earth's
                                                         Advanced Aerospace  Threat  Identification
          classified briefing by the Pentagon about the                                                  atmosphere, although he has been briefed on
                                                         Program, which listens to their story, analyzes
          U.S. Navy’s reported encounters with                                                           them.
                                                         the radar data, and video footage and then buries
          unidentified aircraft.  They’re not saying it’s  their findings in the sub-basement of the FBI (or    ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, in
          aliens, but…                                   so we’ve been led to believe by TV and Blink-   a wide-ranging interview, asked  Trump about
                 They are the latest group of government                                                 recent news reports about Navy pilots spotting
                                                         182). In another story in The Times, one military
          officials to receive classified information about                                              flying objects and what he made of the apparent
                                                         intelligence official who ran the program called
          UFO sightings, as first reported by Politico.                                                  UFO sightings.
                                                         the Navy’s UFO sightings “a striking series of
          Earlier this week, President  Trump told  ABC                                                         "I want them to think whatever they
                                                         incidents.”
          News that he had also been briefed about UFOs.                                                 think,"  Trump said, raising his eyebrows and
                                                                 Politico thinks the government’s
          While he said he didn’t “particularly” believe in                                              slightly grinning before adding that he did have
                                                         newfound interest in UFOs isn’t due to a recent
          UFOs, he thought the Navy might. “Well I think                                                 "one really brief meeting on it."
                                                         X-Files marathon in the Congressional office
          my great, our great pilots would know,” he said.  buildings, but because of that 2017 story in the    "People are saying they're seeing UFOs.
          “Some of them really see things that are a little  Times about the Defense Department’s secretive  Do I believe it? Not particularly," he added.
          bit different than in the past. So we’re gonna                                                        Stephanopoulos followed up, asking the
                                                         program and the UFO encounters they have
          see.”                                                                                          president whether he thought he'd actually know
                                                         investigated, followed by another report in May.
                 The Navy has seen a lot of “things that                                                 if the U.S. had any proof of extraterrestrials — a
                                                         The stories include reports like when a pilot and
          are a little bit different” over the years.  They                                              question Trump didn't appear to actually answer
                                                         his wingman were spooked by something that
          have had a lot of contact with unidentified flying                                             directly.
                                                         looked “like a sphere encasing a cube” zipping
          objects (like this one and this one and others that                                                   "I think our great pilots would know and
                                                         past the cockpit. Or the time in 2004, where two
          didn’t make it to the mainstream media). In fact,                                              some of them really see things that are a little bit
                                                         fighter pilots from the USS Nimitz were flying
          as George Carlin once wrote, thanks to         100 miles off the coast of San Diego and found  different than in the past, so we're gonna see, but
          “countless taped and filmed” and otherwise     a large underwater object that was “much larger  we'll watch it,"  Trump said, following his
          “documented radar evidence seen by                                                             answer with a promise that Stephanopoulos
                                                         than a submarine,” and a second “wingless,
          experienced military and civilian radar                                                        would "be the first to know" if there was alien
                                                         white” and “oblong” object that hovered 50 feet
          operators” there is more evidence of the                                                       life. []
                                                         above the water and moved erratically. (You can
          existence of UFO than there is of God.  The
                                                         watch the video of the encounter here, Scully.)
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