Sure, and there was the Air Force's investigation - Project Blue Book - after the 1947 Roswell incident, that also was finally shut down, which reconfirms to me that the government never shuts down any secret project. They just go deeper into the shadows with it. Or "reinvent" it in a different agency or give it a different name: see, for instance, Total Information Awareness.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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Officials insisted that the effort had ended after five years, in 2012.
“It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding, and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change,” a Pentagon spokesman, Thomas Crosson, said in an email, referring to the Department of Defense.
New York Times
Hal Puthoff, also a pioneer of remote viewing. Check that out some time. There's also a serious civilian organization studying the phenomenon of extraterrestrial communication: CSETI. Check Netflix "Unacknowledged" if you're insterested in where they are to date.Mr. Elizondo said the only thing that had ended was the effort’s government funding, which dried up in 2012. From then on, Mr. Elizondo said in an interview, he worked with officials from the Navy and the C.I.A. He continued to work out of his Pentagon office until this past October, when he resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition.
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Mr. Elizondo said that the effort continued and that he had a successor, whom he declined to name.
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The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence.
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Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of [Congressman Harry] Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.
On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth.
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A 2009 Pentagon briefing summary of the program prepared by its director at the time asserted that “what was considered science fiction is now science fact,” and that the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered.
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Mr. Elizondo said he and his government colleagues had determined that the phenomena they had studied did not seem to originate from any country. “That fact is not something any government or institution should classify in order to keep secret from the people,” he said.
For his part, Mr. Reid said he did not know where the objects had come from. “If anyone says they have the answers now, they’re fooling themselves,” he said. “We do not know.”
But, he said, “we have to start someplace.”
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“We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,” said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program. “First of all, he’d try to figure out what is this plastic stuff. He wouldn’t know anything about the electromagnetic signals involved or its function.”
And it's the height of ignorant arrogance for us to think that at last humans have encountered everything there is in the universe and are equipped to study anything we've found. We readily note that early humans were primitive and ignorant but fail to realize that in another three thousand years, people will look at us the same way. That is, should the earth survive us that long. One thing about those early primitives - they weren't ignorant enough to destroy the planet.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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