https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3xnkx/watch-a-navy-pilot-explain-his-encounter-with-a-ufo

For decades it seemed that only rural Americans and weirdos saw UFOs. That’s changed dramatically in recent years as more and more witnesses have stepped forward to describe their encounters with strange objects in the sky. Many of them are commercial pilots and former U.S. Navy pilots. This weekend 60 Minutes aired a segment interviewing several Navy pilots about their encounter with UFO, or unidentified aerial phenomenon. For UFO fans, the testimonials aren’t anything new but they do represent something important—our nation’s obsession with strange lights in the sky has gone mainstream and credible people are more than willing to talk about it.

The program opened on a conversation with Luis Elizondo, a 20 year military veteran who worked at the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). At AATIP, Elizondo worked with scientists and other experts to try to figure out what the hell everyone is seeing in the sky. “Imagine a technology that can do 6 to 700 gforces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, it can evade radar, that can fly through air, water, and possibly space, and has no obvious signs of propulsions, no wings, no control surfaces, and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity,” Elizondo said. “That’s exactly what we’re seeing.”