The US government has released declassified videos of UFO sightings. Watch this graded news report aimed at intermediate (B1) and slightly higher levels of English.
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The US government has released three declassified videos of unexplained objects flying in the air.
These videos were already leaked in 2007 and 2017. Two of them were published by the New York Times newspaper and the third video was leaked by an organization called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences.
When they were leaked, many people claimed the videos showed alien unidentified flying objects or ufos. According to the New York Times, the first video was filmed in 2004 by two fighter pilots flying over the Pacific Ocean. It shows a round object moving above the water.
The other videos were filmed in 2015 and show objects moving through the air. One of the objects was spinning. The US Department of Defense says that it officially released the videos to show that the footage was real. The objects in the videos remain classified as "unidentified".
People around the world have been fascinated with the idea of UFOs since 1947 when a farmer discovered parts of a flying disc at Roswell in the state of New Mexico. This object is now believed to be part of a secret balloon designed to monitor the Soviet Union.
10 years later, a place known as Area 51 in Nevada became the center of UFO research, according to rumors. There have been a lot of theories about the place, but in 2017, the US Department of defense finally admitted that it had been studying UFO sightings.
