The US Congress and citizens around the nation are taking a renewed interest in UFOs as documents from previously classified investigations are being brought to light, Report informs via NewsNation.
The records include images dating back decades, like a 1950s amateur sketch of egg-shaped discs flying over the Baltimore night sky. The sighting was seen by a whole neighborhood over two hours and remains unexplained decades later.
Another black and white photo from 1969 shows what looks like an alien spaceship straight out of a sci-fi movie. It was later determined to be a rare type of cloud.
So far this year, the National Archives has digitized tens of thousands of pages related to UFOs. The effort starts in the stacks and then moves to a lab. An employee preps the materials for the camera, and they end up on your computer screen.
Some documents include a look into previous government investigations like Project Blue Book.
"Project Blue Book was a US Air Force program from 1947 to 1969, which was responsible for receiving documenting and investigating UFO reports," said Chris Naylor, research services executive.
There are also records from the famous Roswell incident. Original films, once only available at an archives facility just outside Washington, D.C., are now transformed into digital video that can be played anywhere.
This is just a small sample of the government’s UFO reports. The ones in recent years have been collected and investigated by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, a department inside the Pentagon.
It’s unclear how many UFO reports are still classified.