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US government has been dancing around UFOs for 75 years
A legacy of hype, hysteria and fraud is undermining legitimate inquiry into those strange objects in the sky, whether you call them spy balloons, flying saucers or unidentified aerial phenomena.
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The risk that Chinese espionage could become entangled with the unidentified aerial phenomena question is high.
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Stephen Mihm
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The spectacle of the US military shooting down three unidentified objects
Sadly, this looks a lot like what happened 75 years ago, when sightings of what became known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, led to a media circus that undermined legitimate inquiry into what are now known simply as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP.
