Disclosure or deception? New UFO Pentagon office divides believers
NBC News
WASHINGTON The U.S. government is finally getting back into the UFO business.
And depending on which UFO believer you ask, it's either a historic step forward to getting to the bottom of conspiracies or a ploy to regain control of the narrative and possibly even prepare for interplanetary war.
The establishment of a new office, signed into law just before New Year's, to study unidentified aerial phenomenon has divided the loose community of activists, researchers and pseudo scientists who hunt for proof that we are not alone in the universe.
Some hail the legislation creating the new office, tucked into section 1683 of the massive National Defense Authorization Act, for bringing new resources, rigor and officialdom to the investigation of a phenomenon and a potential national security threat that has long been stigmatized in a way that makes it difficult to study.