Pentagon Never Admitted Having Secret UFO Program. Until Now

The truth, as they say, is out there. In 2007, former senator Harry Reid—along with former senators Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye—used "so-called black money" to secretly fund a program inside the Defense Department to study and investigate reports of UFOs, particularly from US military personnel. Despite receiving $22 million in annual funding, the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program has never been acknowledged by the Pentagon—until now, the New York Times reports. 

Documents from the program "describe sightings of aircraft that seemed to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion, or that hovered with no apparent means of lift." The program's former head, Luis Elizondo, describes evidence of "beyond-next-generation capabilities." And a 2009 Pentagon briefing on the program stated "what was considered science fiction is now science fact."

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