Inside the U.F.O. Report

<p>Recently, the government released a long-awaited report: a look at unexplained aerial phenomena.</p><p>We explore the report and what implications it may have. Will it do anything to quell theories of extraterrestrial visitors?</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/julian-e-barnes?smid=pc-thedaily">Julian E. Barnes</a>, a national security reporter for The New York Times. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily">Sign up here</a> to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The United States has no explanation for unidentified objects, but the report<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-report.html"> stops short of ruling out aliens</a>.</li><li>Rather than explaining when sightings of U.F.O.s were really just sightings of top-secret planes, the government has<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/us/politics/ufo-report-us-pentagon.html"> sometimes allowed public eagerness about the possibility of aliens</a> to take hold.</li><li>U.F.O.s were once a taboo topic for the federal government, but not anymore.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/ufos-report.html"> Why are we all talking about them now?</a></li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit </p><p><a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a></p><p>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.</p>