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60 Minutes: 'UFOs regularly spotted in restricted U.S. airspace'

Ryan Graves testifying at a congressional hearing table
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, interviewed in the report, shown at a 2023 House hearing U.S. House Committee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

CBS's 60 Minutes aired Bill Whitaker's report in which former Navy pilot Ryan Graves said his squadron saw unidentified objects over restricted airspace off Virginia for years, and Navy aviators David Fravor and Alex Dietrich described the 2004 Nimitz encounter, weeks before the ODNI report.

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  1. PressUFOs regularly spotted in restricted U.S. airspace, report on the phenomena due next monthCBS News (60 Minutes) / 2021-05-16
  2. PressFor some Navy pilots, UFO sightings were an ordinary event: 'Every day for at least a couple years'Stars and Stripes (from The Washington Post) / 2021-05-18

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