In fiction, cinema and articles from the Internet, structures accounting for unidentified flying objects often appear, accountable to the study of unidentified flying objects. We checked whether such structures existed in reality.

The theme of ufological studies passes in a red thread through a good half of fantastic films, the action of which takes place in our time. You can recall both the famous series “Secret Materials” and the Franchise “People in Black” - a reflection of the city legend about members of government organizations that visited UFO eyewitnesses, demanding to hand over the captured materials and remain silent about what they saw. Many of these plots are associated with the so -called “zone 51” - a military base in Nevada, where, according to rumors, experiments on the aliens are conducted. In 2019, curious citizens even undertook An attempt To storm this base - 3 million people were arranged for a flash mob, of which, however, at the appointed hour there were about 4,000, and only two were tried to penetrate inside.

One of the main shocks in the emergence of the stereotype about the interest of the American special services in the theme of the aliens was the 1947 incident, when a aircraft of unknown origin crashed near the city of Roswell in New Mexico. This story was forgotten for three decades, until new, hitherto unknown details began to emerge in the late 70s. In particular, in 1984, the researchers dated September 24, 1947 fell into the hands of researchers "Memorandum for the Ministry of Defense"signed by President Truman and addressed to the Minister Forrestol. It suggested that the state showed interest in UFOs. However, the examination showed that the signature of Truman was copied from another document, and the font that was scored was not used in the 1940s. Moreover, the Top Secret Restricted Security Information vulture was introduced only ten years after the date indicated on the document. And the fallen object, most likely, was of earthly origin - it is believed that it could be a balloon from the secret project “Mogol”, launched for tracking Soviet nuclear tests.

Well, one cannot help but mention the “documentary” film “The Opening of the Alien”, which was flying up in 1995, which was allegedly shot in 1947 after a disaster near Roswell by a military film operator. The very “autopsy” was produced, as expected, experts from American law enforcement agencies. However, the sensational film in fact It turned out skilled fake.

First of all, we note that a UFO (an unidentified flying object) is not necessarily an alien spacecraft. Such a definition only means that the object noticed in the sky could not be identified, attributed it to the class of aircraft, probes or any other. The fault of this could be both the parameters of the object and the distance to it or weather conditions.

And with similar objects, a country with such a large territory and such large -scale security measures as the United States is dealing with constantly. Therefore, in the second half of the 20th century, not one American commission dealt with a matter of UFO. One of the most famous initiatives was the three projects “Sign”, “GRUZHE” and “Blue Book”, which were supervised by the US Air Force. Over 22 years of observation (1947–1969), more than 12,000 suspicious objects were studied, and about 700 remained unidentified of them. At that time, they did not find signs of advanced technologies beyond the scope of the then scientific knowledge, as well as evidence that the objects were spacecraft. Sensations did not bring other projects, at least the part of them that became public.

We will be transferred to our time. In 2017, US defense department Recognized The existence in 2007-2012 "Expanded Aviation threat identification program." According to the sources, $ 22 million from the budget was spent on it. Later, the ex-head of the program Luis Elizondo gave an interview in which he stated that "there is very convincing evidence that we are not alone." As for the devices studied by the program, they, according to Elizondo, “have characteristics that are currently not in the US arsenal or in any foreign arsenal known to them.”

Whether this program was completely closed or was it just cutting out funding is not known for reliably. However, on August 4, 2020, the Pentagon established an operational group for unidentified air phenomena (UAPTF). It will work under the leadership of the US Department of Naval, since many cases are recorded precisely by its aircraft. The reason was confirmation Pentagon of the authenticity of three short videos previously released by a private company. On them, unidentified aircraft that moved at high speed fell into the lenses of the infrared chambers of the American military. According to the military, the video was shot in 2004 and 2015.

At the same time, Senator Marco Rubio, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, declared: "Frankly, if this is something from the outside of this planet, it would be better than observing the technological leap from the Chinese, Russians or some other enemy." And President Donald Trump, who was at first skeptical of video materials, did not rule out The prospect of declassify data on the Roswell incident.

Well, at the beginning of January 2021, it became known that national intelligence and the US Department of Defense should, by the end of June, should provide the Congress of Intelligence and Armed Forces by an open report on UFOs, in which they will know everything on this subject. Such a decision was made by President Trump at the end of December, signing the financing law for 2021. As the US Senate’s commentary to the document says, “the Committee is still concerned about the lack of a single comprehensive process within the framework of the federal government to collect and analyze intelligence data on unidentified flying objects, despite their potential threat. <...> The Committee instructs ... within 180 days from the date of entry into force of the law to provide a report ... regarding "unidentified air phenomena", also known as "abnormal aircraft", including observed air objects that were not identified. <...> The report should be presented in an unexpected form, but may include a secret application. ”

As you can see, the information that in the XX and XXI centuries, under the patronage of the US government bodies, an analysis of observations of UFOs was carried out is quite reliable. This, of course, does not mean at least any evidence of the existence of aliens. However, experts cannot completely exclude such a version.