Trump says he'll 'take a good, strong look' at whether UFOs exist - News Today

Donald Trump on Sunday said he is going to 'take a good, strong look' at the possibility of UFOs.The president, appearing on Fox News on Maria Bartiromo's show, was asked about reports that the defense department has formed a new body to investigate what it calls unidentified aerial phenomena, and to monitor reported sightings of UFOs.Asked whether there were UFOs, Trump replied: 'I'm going to have to check on that.'He continued: 'I mean, I have heard that. I heard that two days ago. So, I will check on that. 'I will take a good, strong look at that. 'But I will tell you this. We now have created a military the likes of which we have never had before, in terms of equipment, the equipment that we have, the weapons that we have.' Last month a former US Navy pilot spoke about his infamous alleged UFO sighting off the coast of California in 2004.Commander David Fravor said he witnessed a Tic Tac-shaped object in the sky in November 10, 2004 performing extraordinary aerial maneuvers that he said no modern human technology was capable of. Share this article Share 'This is not like we saw it and it was gone or I saw lights in the sky and it's gone – we watched this thing on a crystal clear day with four trained observers,' Fravor said in a sit-down interview with Russian-American YouTuber and MIT researcher Lex Fridman on September 8. He said the phenomena committed an 'act of war' by jamming the military's radar when they tried to trace it.When asked if he believes that Tic Tac shape could've been from another planet, Fravor said it could be possible. 'I don't like to get into little green men but I don't think we've developed it ... I think you can hide things for a while. This is a giant leap in technology,' he said. Reported UFO sightings have shot up amid the coronavirus pandemic.The National UFO Reporting Center is being alerted to about 51 per cent more strange encounters so far this year compared to the same period in 2019.The nonprofit has 5,000 incidents recorded for 2020 with 20 per cent being reported in April, at the height of lockdown across the country and the same month the Navy released three archival UFO videos.Peter Davenport last month told the Wall Street Journal that he has been taking 25 to 50 calls a day at his home in Harrington, Washington as people describe unidentified flying objects. 'It's a herculean task,' Davenport, 72, told the WSJ. 'It's literally taken over my life.'Davenport said it has gotten so popular that he's hand to turn off his phone ringer at night just to get some sleep.According to a January poll by research firm Ipsos, 57 per cent of Americans think there's intelligent life on other planets. The survey found that 45 pe