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Pentagon releases UFO files with documents on secretive military program

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from CBS News · North America

The Pentagon on Friday released a new group of files about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP or UFOs, including a batch of documents regarding a mysterious military program studying aerospace threats.

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