Something studied by the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, for short Crossword Clue

• Mysterious sight at night

  New York Times · Tuesday, August 4, 2026 · 3 letters

• Subject of a declassified Pentagon document, in brief

  New York Times · Wednesday, June 17, 2026 · 3 letters

• Purported sighting recorded by Puritan governor John Winthrop in 1639

  New York Times · Sunday, March 29, 2026 · 3 letters

• What a drone might be mistaken for

  New York Times · Thursday, March 12, 2026 · 3 letters

• Frequent conspiracy subject

  New York Times · Wednesday, October 15, 2025 · 3 letters

• Familiar initialism coined by a U.S. Air Force captain

  New York Times · Sunday, September 28, 2025 · 3 letters

• Strange sighting in the night sky

  New York Times · Monday, August 18, 2025 · 3 letters

• What arrives in the film "Arrival"

  New York Times · Thursday, August 7, 2025 · 3 letters

• ET's vehicle

  New York Times · Monday, April 7, 2025 · 3 letters

• E.T. arrived in one

  New York Times · Tuesday, April 1, 2025 · 3 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 17-Across Orange soda brand
• 18-Across *Mendel studied them
• 19-Down Satanic
• 20-Across *Disconcert mightily
• 21-Down Zapped with light
• 22-Across Big night
• 24-Across Strong craving
• 25-Across Title for the supposed inventor of the sandwich
• 26-Down Ophelia's vengeful brother in "Hamlet"
• 27-Across Cartesian conclusion
• 28-Down Eeyore-like
• 29-Across Throw in the trash