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The 2017 revelation that a secret U.S. Defense Department program has investigated reports of UFOs is hardly a new topic: debate about whether the UFOs existed – and the Pentagon was covering up their existence was covered extensively in
Aviation Week & Space Technology more than 50 years ago. And our reporting had a decidedly anti-extra-terrestrial bent.
Philip J. Klass, Aviation Week’s legendary avionics editor, published an in-depth analysis in the summer of 1966 suggesting that some reported sightings of UFOs were actually “luminous plasmas of ionized air, a special form of ‘ball lightning’ generated by electric corona that occurs on high-tension power lines under certain conditions.”
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