Tucker Carlson interviews UFO Expert and Author Leslie Kean, she provides video footage of a craft on a radar that defies anything man-made. What does our government know about UFOs? The truth is out there? UFO search U.F.O.s have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. In 1947, the Air Force began a series of studies that investigated more than 12,000 claimed U.F.O. sightings before it was officially ended in 1969. The project, which included a study code-named Project Blue Book, started in 1952, concluded that most sightings involved stars, clouds, conventional aircraft or spy planes, although 701 remained unexplained.
Secret Pentagon Program Spent Millions To Research UFOs - A secret Pentagon program existed for at least three years and spent more than $20 million in research on UFOs, according to multiple media reports published Saturday. The program reportedly examined cases including incidents of military pilots claiming to have seen flying objects that appeared to "defy the laws of physics."
Video posted on YouTube as well as on the website of The New York Times purports to be footage taken from Navy F/A-18 fighter jets showing a disc-like object in the sky. "Look at that thing! It's rotating!" voices say in the video.
Called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, it was run out of the Pentagon by former Department of Defense intelligence officer Luis Elizondo. It began in some form in 2007, according to The Washington Post and The New York Times, and officially ended in 2012, though may still be in existence in some capacity, the Times says.
Former Democratic Sen. Harry Reid obtained funding for the program beginning in 2009, with support from the late Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye and late Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, Politico reports.
According to The Washington Post, the program spent at least $22 million "for the purpose of collecting and analyzing a wide range of 'anomalous aerospace threats' ranging from advanced aircraft fielded by traditional U.S. adversaries to commercial drones to possible alien encounters."
"I'm not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going," Reid told the Times. "I think it's one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I've done something that no one has done before."
He remained proud of his efforts in a statement posted on Twitter Saturday:
Reid "was persuaded in part by aerospace titan and hotel chain founder Bob Bigelow, a friend and fellow Nevadan who owns Bigelow Aerospace, a space technology company and government contractor," Politico reported.