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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUFO sightings now getting more attention by Pentagon
In 2017, the Pentagon first confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a government operation launched in 2007 to collect and analyze anomalous aerospace threats. As The Posts Joby Warrick reported, the investigation ranged from advanced aircraft fielded by traditional U.S. adversaries to commercial drones to possible alien encounters.
According to former Pentagon officials and documents previously seen by The Post, program funding, which totaled at least $22?million, was suspended in 2012.
Gradisher said in a statement that in response to requests for information from congressional members and staff, officials have provided a series of briefings by senior Naval Intelligence officials as well as aviators who reported hazards to aviation safety."
Elizondo, who ran the AATIP, said the newly drafted guidelines were a culmination of many things, most notably that the Navy had enough credible evidence including eyewitness accounts and corroborating radar information to know this is occurring.
According to former Pentagon officials and documents previously seen by The Post, program funding, which totaled at least $22?million, was suspended in 2012.
Gradisher said in a statement that in response to requests for information from congressional members and staff, officials have provided a series of briefings by senior Naval Intelligence officials as well as aviators who reported hazards to aviation safety."
Elizondo, who ran the AATIP, said the newly drafted guidelines were a culmination of many things, most notably that the Navy had enough credible evidence including eyewitness accounts and corroborating radar information to know this is occurring.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/04/24/how-angry-pilots-got-navy-stop-dismissing-ufo-sightings/?utm_term=.c1a21723a257
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UFO sightings now getting more attention by Pentagon (Original Post)
mainer
Apr 2019
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underpants
(182,851 posts)1. Not surprising, their boss talks out of his Uranus
Okay that was the best I could do on short notice
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)2. Looking for illegal aliens.
nykym
(3,063 posts)3. well before this it was Project Blue Book
But that didn't sound ominous enough now we have a certified threat.
Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
are the new UFOs...unless they are AUTs, advanced underwater threats...or possibly ASTs...advanced space threats...
Of course they could be carrying ABTs...advanced biological threats.
louis-t
(23,296 posts)5. Maybe Thpathe Forthe can git the job done.
(said with a stupid look on my face, one eye crossed and lots of spittle in the corners of my mouth).