According to the New York Times, “senior officials briefed on the intelligence conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft.”
AATIP investigated 2007-2012
The much-awaited UFO report comes out of an effort that started early in 2020 with the formation of the UAPTF. But in 2007, the U.S. Congress funded a Pentagon Operation known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid says that lawmakers should continue to study unidentified flying objects. The AATIP program investigated reports of UFOs and other aerial objects that still haven’t been explained. Although that program was shut down in 2012, Reid is still concerned about the sheer numbers of these eerie sightings.
“They had many sightings, hundreds and hundreds of these sightings. I didn’t know if it would be 20 or 40. I was stunned – it was hundreds of them,” Reid said recently.
