Project Sign: A Classified Assessment of UFO Sightings, Soviet Security Concerns, and Uncertainty

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Project Sign was a classified effort to study military UFO sightings, decide if they indicated extraterrestrials or posed national-security risks, initially leaning toward Soviet aircraft, with some researchers proposing aliens, but keeping multiple plausible explanations, and it was later replaced by newer UFO investigations.

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