The United States Navy has filed a series of patents for technologies that have a whiff of the science fictional about them. These include room temperature superconductors, a high power electromagnetic field generator, and a Hybrid Underwater Aerospace Craft craft that uses an "inertial mass reduction device" for locomotion. All of the patents are written by Salvatore Cezar Pais, who might be a real person. Does this have anything to do with the Navy's UFO sightings?
Probably part of a disinformation campaign, but they still make great props. Or they could be real in your game world. Or your players could THINK they are real at the start, but they are actually fake, and your players get swept up in a huge espionage plot when they discover they are fake.
How angry pilots got the Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings
In December, footage of UFOs taken from US military planes, officially declassified and approved for release by the US government, was published online by an organisation called To The Stars Academy. [...] The release of the footage may be strange, but the mechanism of its release is stranger still. To The Stars was founded by Tom DeLonge, who used to be the singer in the pop-punk band Blink-182..
A number of UFO stories
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Plays GURPS, Call of Cthulhu and a few other things.
Plays GURPS, Call of Cthulhu and a few other things.