This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemeita Basu. Today, what

our fascination with UFOs says about us Earthlings? A couple years ago the Pentagon released some pretty startling footage.

It was captured by a Navy jet pilot in 2015.

Well, go ahead! pilot in 2015. A little black dot moving shockingly fast over the ocean.

Oh my gosh dude. Wow!

Look at a try! So fast that even the pilots weren't quite sure what they were looking at.

The Pentagon released the videos to quote clear up any misconceptions about whether the footage was

real but in many pockets of the internet the videos and the Pentagon statement

were proof of something else, alien life here on Earth.

The heart of the UFO question is, are we alone?

That's National Security Journal journalist Garrett Graf.

And that is probably one of the most fundamental and longstanding questions in human existence.

And it's up there with, you know, is there a God?

What happens to us after death.

Garrett's career has been all about investigating government secrets. He's written books about Watergate, 9-11, cybersecurity.

His most recent book is called

UFO, the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here and out

there.

In it, Garrett looks at the history of UFO sightings

dating back to the flying saucers of the 1940s

through modern times, where we now call them UAPs

or unexplained aerial phenomena.

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