The Pentagon's investigations of unexplained flying objects are starting to sound more like X-files than they are.

The military's interest in unidentified aerial phenomena can be seen in a new report based on interviews with several former officials involved with those investigations.

Some of the new claims about the military's interest in supposedly supernatural phenomena are so crazy that they raise the question of how our enormous military budget is being spent.

There are references to the Nimitz incident in the report, as well as the recent UAP declassifications. In 2004, Naval fighter jet pilots who had taken off from the nuclear aircraft carrier encountered and recorded a strange object.

It wasn't public knowledge until this Military.com interview that a sailor was commissioned by the Pentagon to investigate the Nimitz incident, and that he went back home to Virginia.

If that sounds crazy, you're right. It sounds like a specific episode of The X-Files.

The investigator's family is likely to have thought the whole thing or mistook local wildlife for an alien. It's eyebrow-raising that the Pentagon is investigating such colorful claims, and that former officials are spilling the beans about them.

James Lacatski, who retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in an interview that the military started taking unexplained flying objects more seriously after becoming concerned that they might pose national security risks.

It sounded like advanced technology to me, Lacatski told Military.com. If it is true, we need to do something about it.

The military's interest in aliens has been growing since officials began leaking documents to the press during the Trump administration. Congress approved defense spending in December of 2021. The military hasn't declassified all that much information so the reporting has remained piecemeal and unconsolidated.

There is hope that the public will finally get more clarity on what the government knows about unexplained phenomena, and what kind of weird stuff it is studying, with the new Pentagon office.

There is a new hunt for unexplained phenomena.

A professor says he has been testing materials recovered from crashes of unexplained objects.

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