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The Pentagon on Friday released a third batch of vintage classified files related to \u201cflying saucers\u201d and other unidentified anomalous phenomena \u2014 better known to most Americans as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs \u2014 that the government has been hanging onto for decades.<\/p>\n

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The 72 newly released files date from the 1940s to this year and showed that government investigators had looked into UFO sightings not just in the United States, but also around the world. And the files contain more reports of sightings from the public and more reports from both the CIA and the FBI.<\/p>\n

But just as the two previous times when the government, at the urging of President Donald Trump, released two tranches of \u201cnever-before-seen\u201d files on a subject that has intrigued Americans for generations, the new document drop will likely be a disappointment to those seeking definitive proof that we are not alone in the universe.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe official responses consistently state that, circa 1998, the U.S. Government is not aware of evidence supporting the existence of extraterrestrial technology,\u201d one of the documents states.<\/p>\n

Like the previously released files, the new batch released Friday is housed on a dedicated government site, the Pentagon public affairs office said in a press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n

The unearthed files include 29 from FBI, 18 from CIA, 12 from the Department of Defense, 11 from NASA, one from the intelligence community and the last document is from an unspecified U.S. government agency.<\/p>\n

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In addition to reports of supposed UFO sightings, this collection also contains references to historical, scientific literature addressing specific \u201cUFO\u201d sighting claims. <\/p>\n

One is a July 2008 sighting of a suspected UFO at the Harare International Airport in the African nation of Zimbabwe. <\/p>\n

\u201cIndividuals debated if the sighting was an advanced reconnaissance device of a foreign government or of extraterrestrial origins,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one point during observation, \u201cbeams\u201d were observed emanating from object,\u201d it reads. <\/p>\n

Then there is a file likely to raise eyebrows among those who believe the government has been covering-up what it knows about UFOs. It contains a memo dated Jan. 9, 1958, that was written by a R.P.B. Lohman, who appears to be a CIA officer. <\/p>\n

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In it, Lohman writes that he has informed a Dr. Leon Davidson that \u201cwe cannot resolve his problems concerning the space messages and its transmitter because records on this matter have been destroyed by the evaluating agency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lohman also appears to regret having to give this answer to Davidson, a scientist who was part of the team that developed the atomic bomb and later investigated reported UFO sightings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate that there have been many cooks in the kitchen on this dish and that, as a result, the extraordinarily noncommittal and evasive answer we were instructed to give Davidson was perhaps the only one possible if we were to avoid crossing up previous statements of our own, and other involved agencies, to this man,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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One of the files shows that the CIA convened a \u201cScientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects\u201d and contains correspondence and reports dated 1952 and 1953.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe panel\u2019s primary conclusion was that \u201cflying saucers\u201d did not pose a direct physical threat to the national security of the United States,\u201d it says. <\/p>\n

The real threat, however, was posed by a \u201csensationalist press\u201d covering the sightings and recommended an official \u201cpolicy of \u201cdebunking\u2019 to \u201cstrip the UFO subject of its mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n

The oldest files in this batch date back to the 1940s.<\/p>\n

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One from the Defense Department is an \u201cEvaluation Study of the Phenomenon (Flying Saucers)\u201d going back to June 1946.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf some 210 incidents, 20 percent have been explained,\u201d it says. \u201cNo tangible evidence which would support a theory that any incidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it does not appear to rule out that any of these incidents are attributable to somebody from a foreign planet.<\/p>\n

The second file from 1949 includes correspondence with then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and a Rev. Charles Barnes who reported seeing \u201cfour beams of light \u2018converging in the Cascade Mountains,\u2019 at an altitude of approximately 10,000 feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barnes told Hoover he saw \u201ca \u2018great explosion\u2019 visible at the convergence point of those beams for at least ten minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In his reply, Hoover thanked Barnes for writing and informed him that he was forwarding the letter to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). <\/p>\n

Hoover suggested to Barnes that what he reportedly saw might be related \u201cto a military or scientific experiment within the commission\u2019s purview.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are also excerpts from a November 1962 interview that legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite did with astronaut Gordon Cooper, who piloted the last Mercury spaceflight.<\/p>\n

Cooper, in the interview, noted that \u201ca large number of exceptionally well-qualified people have seen objects\u201d without a \u201clogical explanation.\u201d He also speculated on the existence of other planets with \u201ca livable atmosphere\u201d and that maybe there are \u201csome type of human life\u201d out there.<\/p>\n

Cronkite, who died in 2009, covered most of NASA\u2019s first forays into outer space and was later presented with a moon rock in recognition of his decades of covering the space program.<\/p>\n

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