Global News published this video item, entitled “Pentagon verifies UFO sightings, footage amid increased security concerns” – below is their description.
In the United States, unidentified flying objects are back in the news, as the Pentagon confirms the authenticity of more rare UFO footage, as well as official accounts from U.S. pilots.
Canada has also seen its fair share of UFO sightings. In 2020, Canadians reported more than 1,200 UFO sightings – a 50 per cent increase over the number of sightings in 2019.
But as David Akin explains, although these incidents are little “out-of-this-world,” the U.S. military is treating the confirmed sightings as serious security concerns.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
The United States is a country also known as the United States of America, USA, US or just America. There are fifty states in the union, which is a federal republic ruled by a representative democracy. Nearly ten million square kilometres are inhabited by over 300 million people. The majority of Americans speak English.