The Pentagon has admitted there are UFOs...well soft of. It has admitted that a program called The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program ran from 2007-2012 with the mission to explore life outside of Earth.
A declassified video, named "Gimbal", of what looks like a UFO was released. In the video, two U.S. Fighter Pilots try to make sense of what is happening as they see a weird object flying through the sky. Paoletta walks us through what she believes we're seeing.
Plus, do aliens really exist? The $22 million allocated to AATIP came from taxpayer money and went to a company named Bigelow Aerospace. With this cash, Robert Bigelow hired people to construct buildings to house items that came from supposed UFOs. He also brought on researchers to study people who said they'd encountered extraterrestrial objects. He believes aliens are real and are living among us...the science community needs a little more convincing.
President Biden's self-imposed deadline of making booster vaccines available for all Americans is today, but with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only approving the boosters for senior citizens, it doesn't look like he can make that deadline. The nation's top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci defended both positions, saying that the deadline was more of a placeholder and that he also stands by the FDA's decision.
Dr. Jen Caudle, family physician and associate professor at Rowan University, joined Cheddar's Opening Bell to discuss more on the booster shot and Pfizer's vaccine for young kids.
26 states have now fully vaccinated more than half of their population with Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts fully vaccinating at least two-thirds of their residents. These three states are among the ones with the lowest new Covid-19 cases per capita, but in states with low vaccination rates, hospitals are filling up again.
Dr. Rob Davidson, ER doctor and executive director of Committee to Protect Health Care, joined Cheddar's Opening Bell to discuss more.
Gas prices are expected to rise ahead of Labor Day weekend, with millions of people hitting the road and Hurricane Ida disrupting the nation's oil and gas industries. Chris Williams, CEO of CW Petroleum Corp, joined Cheddar to discuss the rise and fall of gas prices, plus what his company plans to do to adapt to the uptick in electric vehicles.
