Defense officials announce new UFO task force

Washington is stepping up efforts to probe possible alien activity after officials admitted they could not explain the phenomena of UFO sightings.

The Department of Defense is rolling out a new group tasked with finding and identifying UFOs in restricted airspace, officials said Tuesday.

The new outfit comes after the intelligence community verified a series of unexplained aerial phenomena sightings by the military earlier this year, but said it could not identify the mysterious vehicles, in a report to Congress detailing the government’s knowledge of UFOs.