UFO sighted by a New Mexico State University student, West of Picacho Peak, Las Cruces, New Mexico, March 12, 1967.

The Truth About UFOs

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 25, 2021

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, staff writer for The New Yorker, talks about the history of the American government’s interest in unidentified flying objects and how the 2017 disclosure of a secret Pentagon program spurred a renewed interest among lawmakers in studying the phenomena.

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