Last month the U.S. government revealed that they had been spending money to secretly investigate UFOs under the veil of “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification.” What’s more, Luis Elizondo, the man formerly in charge of the Pentagon Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program has gone on record with CNN, stating "My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone."

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The Defense Department said that the program was shut down in 2012, but backers of the program said the program still exists even though funding was cut. The program began in 2007 and was mostly funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader at the time.

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In December, a former Navy pilot interviewed with CNN. In 2004, U.S. Navy Pilot David Fravor spotted and followed a “white object, oblong, pointing north, moving erratically.” He said he got close to it, and it flew away from him before quickly disappearing. He said it didn’t have wings, and he “noted clear differences between a chopper and the aircraft he came across.” He added that the aircraft moved with an unprecedented agility, moving through the air “like a ping pong ball.”

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It’s possible that he could have been wrong, but Fravor and his team tracked this craft for roughly five minutes before it disappeared and all of his team states similar things about the incident. Of course, the government has funded projects like this before, starting with the once-prominent Project Blue Book, a governmental program that investigated “alien” sightings between 1948 and 1969. They investigated above 12,000 “sightings” and to this day, just over 700 of those remain unidentified. According to a document in archives.gov, the project ended for three reasons. First, nothing that the project discovered gave any cause for alarm about national security. Second, the things that were found didn’t present any technological breakthroughs, or any real benefit of almost any kind. Third, though, and most importantly, “there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as ‘unidentified’ are extraterrestrial vehicles.” This is to imply that no UFOs that were documented seemed “alien” in nature, and, as such, the project ended.

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Other notable sightings include the Roswell Incident, where it was reported that a “flying saucer” had crash landed in a field. The Roswell Airfield stated that they’d found a “flying disk,” but they went on record to rescind their previous statement and claim that the object was just a weather balloon. Since this event in 1947, supposed witnesses have come forward to claim that they saw the military take away the flying disk, and they also claim that alien bodies were in that ship. To this day, there is a UFO museum in Roswell.

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Statistically it makes sense for there to be alien life. The observable universe is incredibly large. There are more stars in the observable universe than there are grains of sand on every beach on the planet earth, and somewhere, there could easily be one planet th