60 Minutes would like to remind you that UFOs are real
One of the weirdest things about living in the 21st century is that the American government has confirmed that it’s been seriously investigating UFOs for a long time but nobody (outside of, we imagine, some of the most intense corners of the internet) really seems to care very much. In an effort to once again try to generate interest in the fact that there are weird aircraft pretty regularly flying around up above us, 60 Minutes decided to air a special on what we’re now supposed to call “unidentified aerial phenomena” (or UAPs).
In one of the clips made available online, host Bill Whitaker interviews a man named Luis “Lue” Elizondo, who began running a Pentagon program called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (or AATIP) in 2010 in order to study “the national security implications of unidentified aerial phenomena documented by U.S. service members.”