![]() ![]() sightings, he suggested there might in fact be more out there. The lingering fear of ridicule may be suppressing the true numbers of U.F.O. “People aren’t so afraid to say, ‘Oh, jeez, I was in the woods now, or I was by the lake, and this thing came down.’”īut for a 65-year-old retired New York State Park Police officer from Granville, along the state border with Vermont - who asked not to be named because he worried about going public with his belief in U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial life - full acceptance still feels a ways off. “Because of the Pentagon being outed, there is more news now, there is more reporting now,” said Ms. The seeming uptick in reports has come as a relief to some who say they’ve seen mysterious floating craft, but feared they were alone. “With the Covid thing, more people are looking up,” he said. “They come up toward the Hudson Valley, it’s beautiful up there, you get clear skies and then all of a sudden you see this thing zipping through the sky, that stopped on a dime, goes straight up, takes off again, stops, comes back - we’re talking incredible speeds,” said Mr. Last year, it declassified three videos of such sightings. But there is another reason that the public might be newly receptive to the idea that the flicker on the horizon is worth reporting: The Pentagon revealed over the summer that it would soon convene a new task force to investigate so-called “unidentified aerial phenomena” observed from military aircraft. ![]() enthusiasts say the pandemic clearly has more people scanning the night skies. Glimmers wobbling across the sky have gone viral on TikTok, racking up millions of views. About a quarter of the reports nationally came in March and April of last year, when lockdowns were at their most strict. In New York, droves of urbanites fleeing the virus took up residence in places like the Catskills and the Adirondacks, where skies are largely free from light pollution. Pushed to stay home by lockdown restrictions, many found themselves with more time to look up. Rather, it was likely caused in part by another invader: the coronavirus. But according to ufologists (pronounced “yoof-ologists”), as those who study the phenomena call themselves, the trend is not necessarily the result of an alien invasion. ![]()
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