Is the Government Hiding Information on UFOs?

Season 52 Episode 1

About the Episode

The government does keep secrets about aerospace technology, but are those linked to UFO sightings? How much do they really know? With growing concerns about national security and more citizen sightings of unidentified objects in our airspace, the need to identify these unknown objects is greater than ever before.

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