Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

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> Subject: NYTimes: Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
> Date: December 17, 2017 at 3:52:23 PM EST
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> Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
> By HELENE COOPER, RALPH BLUMENTHAL and LESLIE KEAN
> DEC. 16, 2016
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html 
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html>
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> WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace 
> Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.
>
> Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.
>
> For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department 
> officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military 
> intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze. 
> [...]
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> Politico also chimes in with:
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> The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs
> Funded at the request of Harry Reid, the program probed a number of encounters military pilots had with aircraft they 
> believed didn’t operate like anything they had seen before.
> By BRYAN BENDER December 16, 2017
> https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 
> <https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111>
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> The Pentagon, at the direction of Congress, a decade ago quietly set up a multi-million dollar program to investigate 
> what are popularly known as unidentified flying objects—UFOs.
>
> The “unidentified aerial phenomena” claimed to have been seen by pilots and other military personnel appeared vastly 
> more advanced than those in American or foreign arsenals. In some cases they maneuvered so unusually and so fast that 
> they seemed to defy the laws of physics, according to multiple sources directly involved in or briefed on the effort 
> and a review of unclassified Defense Department and congressional documents.
>
> The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, whose existence was not classified but operated with the 
> knowledge of an extremely limited number of officials, was the brainchild of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid 
> (D-Nevada), who first secured the appropriation to begin the program in 2009 with the support of the late Senators 
> Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Republican Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), two World War II veterans who were similarly 
> concerned about the potential national security implications, the sources involved in the effort said. The origins of 
> the program, the existence of which the Pentagon confirmed on Friday, are being revealed publicly for the first time 
> by POLITICO and the New York Times in nearly simultaneous reports on Saturday. [...]
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