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now to a story news nation has been

covering since the beginning what are

UFOs and how much does the government

know about where they might originate

according to a news Nation decision desk

HQ poll released today more than 63

percent of those surveyed believe the

U.S government has more information

about extraterrestrial life than has

been publicly shared just 17 percent of

respondents don't think that's the case

a new effort by the National Archives is

pulling back the curtain on UFO records

once hidden by the government as news

nation's Evan Lambert shows us you can

now access many of these newly digitized

documents with a simple click of a

button

it was a whole neighborhood who saw them

for about a two-hour period a 1950s

amateur sketch of egg-shaped flying

discs over the Baltimore night sky still

unexplained decades later or this black

and white photo from 1969 of what looks

like an alien spaceship straight out of

a sci-fi movie

it was later determined to be a rare

kind of cloud

news Nation getting an exclusive look at

how once secret government records are

being made available to the world things

that we cannot explain as Congress and

citizens around the nation are taking a

renewed interest in UFOs so far this

year the National Archives has digitized

tens of thousands of pages related to

UFOs they start in Stacks like this then

it's off to the lab where employees prep

the materials get them ready for the

camera and then onto your computer

screen what we'll do is we'll place the

object on the table

and basically take an image of it

Project Blue Book was an U.S Air Force

program from 1947 to 1969 which was

responsible for receiving documenting

and investigating UFO reports every time

you play a film it's at risk of damage

and the famous Roswell incident

transformed from the original film only

available at an archives facility just

outside DC to this digital video that

can now be played anywhere but once

clandestine Air Force video supporting

the official government conclusion that

the 1947 discovery of debris in New

Mexico was from Air Force testing of

covert weather balloons now the tens of

thousands of government UFO records

expected to all be available online by

2024. the first step was to identify the

records in our Holdings that relate to

UFOs and to determine the scope with

that to begin the digitization of the

records that were not already digitized

our goal is to have those records

digitized by the end of this year

reporting by Evan Lambert thanks so much

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