UFOs on Catalina? Latest trove from feds detail spooky yet, unverified history
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Set us as preferred It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s ...decades-old reports of UFOs on Catalina Island!The most famous of Southern California’s Channel Islands is the site of several newly released — yet unverified — reports of unidentified flying objects compiled by the U.S.
government, according to a review of the latest tranche of records from the Trump administration.Of the 28 files about unidentified anomalous phenomena released Friday, four of them detail bizarre sightings from Catalina during the 1940s and 1950s, including one of “flying saucers” spotted by three Boy Scouts.The records are the seventh tranche released by the U.S.
Department of Defense as part of an effort by the Trump administration to allow Americans to “make up their own minds about the information contained in these files,” according to a prior statement from the Pentagon.Politics Not everyone is convinced aliens are involved.
‘If we had found a UFO, I think the Department of Defense would tell us,’ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said.The Pentagon has been working on declassifying documents related to UFOs for years, and Congress created an office in 2022 for that purpose.Its 2024 debut report revealed hundreds of previously unknown UAP incidents, but found no evidence that the U.S.
government had ever confirmed a sighting of alien technology.Still, there’s been increased interest in such reports, especially from online sleuths and conspiracy theorists who believe the government has been covering up evidence of extraterrestrial life, particularly at the notorious Nevada military site, Area 51.
The reports out of Catalina began about two years after the infamous crash in Roswell, N.M., where the government maintains it recovered a weather balloon, but skeptics say it was a UFO.The first report came from a man named Perc...