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Foo Fighter

No explanation as to why it belongs under Extraterrestrial Hypothesis. See Foo fighter; no connection to ETH. Does not belong in that place. Kortoso (talk)—Preceding undated comment added 19:53, 7 November 2013

UFOs confirmed by Pentagon

On April 27 2020, an unexplained aerial phenomena was confirmed by the Pentagon. This confirmation came after the videos were 'leaked' in 2007 and 2017. The confirmed videos show what pilots saw in 2004 and 2015.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/pentagon-releases-three-ufo-videos-taken-by-us-navy-pilots Rblaq (talk) 21:45, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

... and is heavily disputed. I've seen software problems that looked very similar to what was released. 50.111.15.47 (talk) 00:18, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Adequately explained here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/explained-new-navy-ufo-videos.11234/

In short: aircraft, aircraft, balloon.Skeptic2 (talk) 10:30, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Livy

I don't understand this: "Julius Obsequens was a Roman writer who is believed to have lived in the middle of the fourth century AD. The only work associated with his name is the Liber de prodigiis (Book of Prodigies), completely extracted from an epitome, or abridgment, written by Livy; " Livy lived, like, centuries before the fourth century.Kdammers (talk) 03:21, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

UAP should be broken off

There is a major difference between UAP and UFO, even though they are commonly interchangeably used. A UFO could be an object such as a magnetic anomaly or a meteor. A UAP, on the other hand, is an Advanced Aerial Vehicle which uses next generation propulsion technology. A UFO is completely Unidentified and the subject matter is very broad. A UAP is at least partially identified as a type of vehicle which displays anomalous capabilities such as Inertial Mass Reduction and Metric Engineering capabilities. AAV and UAP should redirect to a dedicated page. SystemFailure0x5a (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 18:29, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Really? If such an an advanced aerial vehicle with"anomalous capabilities such as Inertial Mass Reduction and Metric Engineering" actually existed it would have its own Wikipedia article. Moriori (talk) 20:08, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There's a case to be made here in that Unidentified Aerial Phenomena is the current terminology used by US state agencies, and can include incidents that don't involve a vehicle per se. The term is also often associated with proper research attempts, to deviate from its paranormal/pseudoscientific stigma, usually involving mentions in mainstream WP:RS of the few "confirmed" cases (confirmed as in officially deemed unidentified and/or being investigated) by state agencies, involving worries of potential US adversaries technological leaps, and open political discussion. In my opinion we need an article listing such incidents and research attempts. --Loganmac (talk) 11:52, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

I understand that this is a very wide topic, but shouldn't the lead still be a little longer and more in depth? It's currently just three short phrases. For pages of over 30,000 characters (this article has 124,184), MOS:LEADLENGTH suggests three or four paragraphs. Notably, the lead and sidebar suggest that the article primarily covers ufology/aliens and the refutation thereof, which isn't really the case. Much of the article discusses real unidentified (at the time) objects and genuine (non-paranormal) interest by primarily governments and armed forces into these phenomena. Prinsgezinde (talk) 16:27, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Who else is excited?

I don't know about you guys but I'm certainly very excited for those new videos to be released by the United States government. Here's a quote from a Today news clip on it, "Those videos were probably the least compelling videos, in some videos you see an objects at least 50 feet away from the cockpit." He is referring to the videos we have already seen that are very blurry but still intriguing. Can't wait for this page to be updated when that happens. Maybe it will just be boring though, I don't know. What do you guys think? Will it really be interesting?