 On June 24th, 1947, a pilot named Kenneth Arnold saw nine disc-shaped objects near Mount Rainier, Washington, which was the first reported UFO sighting and one factor in the decision to create Project Blue Book. A team of investigators with the U.S. Air Force said over 17 years studied the veracity of these claims. By the time it dissolved in 1969, the group had studied nearly 13,000 UFO sightings, concluding that almost all of them could be attributed to other phenomena. 5%, however, are still unexplained. Now, UIP-focused startups are popping up everywhere. Seemingly, their goal is to contend for military contracts. Do you think the government knows more about UFOs or UIPs than they're letting on? The government's this big, very difficult to get to grips with, very complicated organization with lots of moving parts that don't talk to each other. The government knows more about everything than it's willing to tell us. It's dubious that it knows anything about UFOs being aliens, though.