How much attention do unidentified flying objects receive on television news? The timeline below shows total monthly mentions of UFOs across television news over the past decade, showing surges around the Pentagon's December 2017 acknowledgement of its monitoring program and a May 2019 New York Times interview with several US Navy pilots reporting their experiences. Fox News began ramping up its mentions of UFOs after the Pentagon's acknowledgement and increased its mentions after the May 2019 inteview.