unidentified aerial phenomenon

Noun

 * 1) * 2017, Rafi Letzter, Scientific American, "The Truth about Those "Alien Alloys" in The New York Times UFO Story", ISSN 0036-​8733
 * The company [involved in the DOD research] modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.
 * 1) * 2018, Sarah Scoles, Wired, "What Is Up With Those Pentagon UFO Videos?", ISSN 1059-1028
 * The article describes a federally funded program that investigated reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs, the take-me-seriously acronym that includes UFOs). And within the story, the Times embedded videos of two such UAPs.
 * 1) * 2019, Kayla Epstein, The Washington Post, "Those UFO videos are real, the Navy says, but please stop saying ‘UFO’"
 * The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena.
 * 1) * 2020, Rob Long, The National Review, "The Great Coronavirus Non-Freakout", ISSN 0028-0038
 * So for the first time, video showing unidentified aerial phenomena was confirmed as just that, weird objects flying around the sky at a speed and in a trajectory that no known technology allows, and it was on television and cable news for a day, and then everyone just went back to talking about what Trump tweeted to the guy on CNN.
 * 1) * 2020, PRNewswire, Baker City Herald, "To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science Acknowledges the Pentagon's Official Release of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Video Footage"
 * Pentagon officially released three videos of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
 * 1) * 2020, PRNewswire, Baker City Herald, "To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science Acknowledges the Pentagon's Official Release of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Video Footage"
 * Pentagon officially released three videos of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

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