Did you know there are artifacts from UFO reports at Air Force Museum?

A recently uncovered Pentagon operation to study unidentified flying objects called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program has been confirmed by a Pentagon spokesman, according to the New York Times.

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Documents showed the program started in 2007, and was defunded in 2012.

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The Air Force itself ran Project Blue Book from 1957 through 1969 to comprehensively study UFO reports from its pilots and the public.

Artifacts collected from public reports of UFOs are now stored at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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