It was an afternoon of much anticipation and excitement – followed by the saddest trombone sound echoing across the internet.
The long-awaited report from US intelligence officials on unidentified flying objects dropped this afternoon, marking one of the first times the US government officially weighed in on strange sightings in the sky. Their big reveal, however, was seen by many as more of a shrug.
“The truth is still out there,” several reporters who covered the news wrote, after the report could only explain one of 144 reports of what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomenon”.
“We were able to identify one reported UAP with high confidence,” the report says. “In that case, we identified the object as a large, deflating balloon. The others remain unexplained.”
Some remarked it had taken a long time to produce a report that ran just nine pages and offered little in the way of concrete conclusions.
Aliens weren’t the only explanation being examined….