From Roswell to the UAP Era: A Century of America's UFO Inquiry and Cultural Imagination

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The American UFO saga has evolved from 1947 sightings into a long-running national inquiry that weaves government investigations, science, and pop culture—from Area 51 and iconic films to the UAP Task Force and the All‑Domain Anomaly Resolution Office—while 2021–2024 reviews found no conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial life or reverse‑engineered tech, data gaps remain, and leaders like Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Anna Paulina Luna call for more transparency as NASA and other agencies pursue new methods to study unidentified aerial phenomena.