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Encounters with UFOs have reportedly left Americans suffering from

radiation burns, brain and nervous system damage, and even
"unaccounted for pregnancy," according to a massive database of U.S.
government reports recently made public through a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request.

The database of documents includes more than 1,500 pages of UFO-

related material from the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification
Program (AATIP) — a secretive U.S Department of Defense program that
ran from 2007 to 2012. Despite never being classified as secret or top
secret, the AATIP only became known to the public in 2017, when former
program director Luis Elizondo resigned from the Pentagon and released
several now-infamous videos of an unidentified aircraft moving in
seemingly impossible ways to the media.

Shortly after the AATIP's existence was revealed, the U.S. outpost of the
British Tabloid The Sun filed a FOIA request for any and all documents
related to the program. Four years later — on April 5, 2022 — the U.S.
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) honored the request by releasing more
1,574 pages of material to The Sun.

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According to The Sun, the cache of documents includes reports on the
biological effects of UFO sightings on humans, studies on advanced
technologies such as invisibility cloaks, and plans for deep space
exploration and colonization. Some portions of the documents were
"withheld in part" for privacy and confidentiality concerns, the AATIP told
The Sun.

One standout document from the collection is a report titled Anomalous

Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues, dated
March 2010. The report describes alleged injuries to "human observers by
anomalous advanced aerospace systems," some of which may be a "threat
to United States interests," according to the document.

The report describes 42 cases from medical files and 300 "unpublished"
cases where humans sustained injuries after alleged encounters with
"anomalous vehicles," which include UFOs. In some cases, humans showed
burn injuries or other conditions related to electromagnetic radiation, the
report said — some of them appearing to have been inflicted by "energy
related propulsion systems." The report also noted cases of brain damage,
nerve damage, heart palpitations and headaches related to anomalous
vehicle encounters.

It is unclear what kind of vetting process, if any, the AATIP used to

investigate these alleged cases. The Sun has yet to share the full contents
of the requested reports.

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The report also includes a list of alleged biological effects of UFO sightings
on human observers between 1873 and 1994, compiled by the Mutual UFO
Network (MUFON) — a civilian non-profit group that studies reported UFO
sightings. The reported effects of UFO encounters include "unaccounted
for pregnancy," "apparent abduction," paralysis, and experiences of
perceived telepathy, teleportation and levitation.

The report concludes that there is sufficient evidence "to support a

hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed, and opaque
to full US understandings."

For more details, check out The Sun's initial report on their FOIA request.

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appeared in The Washington Post, Reader's Digest, CBS.com, the
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