I Saw a UFO Up Close While Serving in the Air Force

Wes O'Donnell
8 min readJun 6, 2024

So, what does the US intelligence community say about UFOs? (rebranded as UAPs for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)

Licensed by the author from Envato Elements

I was too young to catch Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of a Third Kind in theaters in the 1980s, but when I finally watched it on VHS in the 1990s, I had the childlike realization that the US government may be keeping secrets from the American public.

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Wes O'Donnell

US Army & US Air Force Veteran | Global Security guy at War is Boring, GEN, OneZero | Intel Forecaster | Law Student | TEDx Speaker | +Democracy | +Human Rights