Finally! The moment we’ve all been waiting all our lives for has arrived.

The Pentagon has admitted that it has and still does investigate UFO sightings.

This is especially close to my heart because I grew up immersed in talk of UFOs, I watched the X-Files, I heard my dad talk about a story of a UFO that lit up the night sky like it was daylight when he was a kid then flew off quicker than anything he’d ever seen in his life.

According to Fox News,

The Pentagon has finally uttered the words it always avoided when discussing the possible existence of UFOs — “unidentified aerial phenomena” — and admits that it still investigates reports of them.

In a statement provided exclusively to The Post, a Department of Defense spokesman said a secret government initiative called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program “did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena.”

And while the DOD says it shut down the AATIP in 2012, spokesman Christopher Sherwood acknowledged that the department still investigates claimed sightings of alien spacecraft.

“The Department of Defense is always concerned about maintaining positive identification of all aircraft in our operating environment, as well as identifying any foreign capability that may be a threat to the homeland,” Sherwood said.

“The department will continue to investigate, through normal procedures, reports of unidentified aircraft encountered by US military aviators in order to ensure defense of the homeland and protection against strategic surprise by our nation’s adversaries.”

UFOs, whatever they are, pique the interest of believers and skeptics alike. For some, it’s just entertainment, but for others, it means so much more.

Many people have reported being abducted by aliens, or seeing UFOs, or just curious as to whether or not something or someone else is out there somewhere. This gives hope to those people.