WASHINGTON — Dylan Borland was stationed at Langley Air Force Base in summer 2012 when in the middle of the night he observed a triangular craft shrouded in light in the sky above his barracks, he told members of Congress. The craft approached him noiselessly, hovered above where he stood, and then quickly ascended tens of thousands of feet into the sky and disappeared.
After the roughly 15-minute encounter, he recounted it to some of his colleagues, according to Borland, a former geospatial intelligence specialist for the U.S. Air Force and one of a growing number of witnesses who have come forward in recent years documenting interactions with unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs — better known in more sensational terms as UFOs.
“A couple people had pulled me aside, some older enli