The Modern Search for U.F.O.s

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Over the weekend, many people were astounded to learn of the existence of the Defense Department’s mysterious U.F.O. research initiative in an article in The New York Times.

The article reported that between 2007 and 2012, the Defense Department spent $22 million on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, looking through reports of unidentified flying objects.

Don Lincoln, a physics professor at the University of Notre Dame, and author of “Alien Universe: Extraterrestrials in our Minds and in the Cosmos," discusses what those reports found, and what we know about the government’s search for U.F.O.s. 

This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich