The U.S. government is set to receive an unprecedented intelligence report next month on the mysterious sightings of UFOs.
After years of public denial, the report will acknowledge that UFOs — which means unidentified flying objects — are not just a matter of science fiction and conspiracy theories. The U.S. government admits that there is something out there, and they want to know what it is.
Over the years, UFOs have been a cause for question and concern. They have regularly been spotted in restricted U.S. airspace. Upon further study of the sightings, most are determined to be common aircraft, stars, fireballs or other easily explainable phenomena. But there are still dozens left unexplained.
In 2004, Alex Dietrich was a young navy pilot out on a training flight when she saw something unusual in the sky above San Diego, Calif.
"I asked the more senior weapons systems officer in my back seat, 'What do you think it is?' He said, 'You know, maybe it's somebody running drugs up the coast,' Dietrich told As It Happens host Carol Off.
"Then when they merged and we didn't see anything immediately, but then saw a disturbance in the water below us, my heart sank."
Then, she says, they spotted an object in the sky shaped like a Tic-Tac.
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