The US government, once openly dismissive of UFO sightings that for decades sparked the popular imagination, is poised to issue an expansive account of what it calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," based heavily on observations by American military pilots.

Lt Cmdr Alex Dietrich is a retired fighter pilot who observed a UFO during a routine training exercise in 2004.

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