re: NY Times: Pentagon’s UFO Program - aerospace/esoteric/quantum mechanics/future

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"That's a hell of a video": Trump reacts to newly released UFO footage from the Pentagon

BY SOPHIE LEWIS
APRIL 30, 2020 / 2:07 PM / CBS NEWS

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On Monday, the Pentagon formally released unclassified footage of "unidentified aerial phenomena." President Trump reacted to the footage in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, calling it a "hell of a video."


The three unclassified videos were taken by Nay pilots and have circulated for years without confirmation. One of the videos shows an incident from 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015, according to Sue Gough, a Defense Department spokeswoman.

"I just wonder if it's real," the president lightheartedly told Reuters. "That's a hell of a video."

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While the president has a history of acknowledging and apparently supporting some conspiracy theories, he's expressed skepticism surrounding the existence of UFOs, which the government have been tracking for decades.

"I did have one very brief meeting on it," Trump told ABC News in June 2019. "But people are saying they're seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly."

"I think my great pilots would know. Our great pilots would know," the president said at the time regarding the potential existence of extraterrestrial life.

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