There’s life anew in the unidentified flying object world with some two dozen former military and commercial pilots and government officials from seven countries calling for renewed investigations. The Air Force closed its Project Blue Book in the late 1960s, but reports from Reuters and AFP news services say the international panel on Monday asked for either Air Force or NASA to begin new investigations. One panelist, former Arizona Gov. and Air Force pilot Fife Symington said, “We want the US government to stop perpetuating the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms.”
The KC-Z4, a blended wing body tanker concept being developed by startup JetZero, could fuel larger groups of aircraft at longer range to hold more targets at risk, company officials say.