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Do you believe in UFOs of nonhuman origin?

That’s a question our columnist Dana Wilde pondered as he detailed new government evidence of unexplained aircraft and his own personal experience of seeing a cone-shaped aircraft in the Portland area in 1972. As far as he can tell, there is no conventional aerodynamic way the object he saw could have gotten lift.

Wilde notes that there was recently a credible report about a former U.S. intelligence official who says he has indirect but documentable knowledge that aircraft of nonhuman origin has been recovered by the government.

Wilde concludes that it’s hard to know what to make of his own experience and other unexplained sightings, but it seems clear to him that “something strange is going on, and no one seems to know exactly what it is,” including officials with access to secret information.

But what do you think? Do you believe in UFOs of nonhuman origin? Tell us in the poll and comments below.