ET enthusiasts began 2021 with a renewed zeal, as an oddball provision in a coronavirus spending bill promised an unsealing of government UFO records. And unsealed they were, brimming with tales of aviators amazed at the speed and physics-flouting antics of the strange objects — even if those stories didn't quite trigger the existential crisis many long feared they would.

But with a new administration in Washington came a brand-new Defense Department office with a charter to handle the government's examination of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force has been given a frosty reception by the international community of ufologists who believe the new entity will only muddy the government's newfound UFO report transparency, according to The Hill.

Fortunately, politics hasn't stopped Connecticut sky watchers from racing to the database of the National UFO Reporting Center every time they spy something awry in the sky. Residents of the Nutmeg State averaged more than an entry a week into the NURC archives, where the reports on possible extraterrestrial jaunts and patrols are classified, categorized and mulled over by amateur and professional ufologists.

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