The truth is out there: Pentagon spends millions on UFO research

Somebody get Agent Mulder and Scully on the horn asap. Recently Politico and The New York Times ran stories on how the United States government and Pentagon ran a program to study Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO).

Known officially as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the goal of the program was to investigate UFO sightings. The program began in 2007 when Senate Majority Leader (at the time) Senator Harry Reid asked for funding for the program.

Allegedly the program was operational until 2012 when unnamed Pentagon officials said the program was terminated. The goal of the program was to investigate and identify objects that witnesses, including other military personnel and pilots, have seen. The final price tag for this study was about $20 million.

Luis Elizondo, who oversaw the program, recently resigned and is frustrated by what he saw as a lack of support and the investigations not being taken seriously by the Pentagon. Politico reports that a former congressional staffer said the motivation behind the program was to investigate incidents with UFOs under the impression that the Chinese or Russian military had developed new technology beyond what the United States had done.

A video that accompanied the New York Times story allegedly shows one such encounter. The video, released in August 2017, shows an unknown craft which is picked up by pilots in F/A-18 Super Hornets. The object rotates as it flies at an incredible speed. The audio that goes with the video has pilots trying to figure out what they are looking at. One pilot makes a remark about a “whole fleet” of objects. The Pentagon refuses to give specifics such as date, time and place of where the incident occurred. Check out the video below.

This is not the first time the United States government has waded into the UFO phenomena. The United States Air Force spearheaded a program that ran from 1947 to 1969 known as Project Blue Book. By the time the program was decommissioned the Air Force had collected 12, 618 reports of UFO sightings and encounters.

I never thought I would see the day that the government acknowledges it has/had a program to study and investigate claims of UFO activity. I also never thought I would see the day that mainstream news agency reports are being written about. Most of the time people who have had an encounter with UFO are typically laughed out of a room.

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So maybe after all these years Fox Mulder was right. Is this an X-Files type situation? Possibly, because the Pentagon is not releasing a lot of details about the program and saying certain aspects are classified. They say the program was stopped in 2012 because it produced more reams of paper than actual science or proof of UFOs. Like a wise man once told me, “The truth is out there.”