Harry Reid, convinced UFO sightings are real, defends funding of secret research

[TexasTowelie]

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defended the $22 million he earmarked to study UFOs when he was in the U.S. Senate, saying the nation must to keep up with similar programs by rivals on the world stage.

"We know that China is doing it," Reid said of UFO studies Tuesday on "Nevada Newsmakers." "We know that Russia, which is led by someone within the KGB, is doing it, too, so we better take a look at it, too."

Reid told host Sam Shad that he secured the $22 million to begin the secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) in 2007 and the program was funded and supervised by the Pentagon until 2012. The New York Post, however, reported the Pentagon's investigation into sightings of alien spacecraft continues today.

The AATIP program helped convinced Reid the sightings are real. Reid recently urged Congress to hold public hearings on the issue during an interview on KNPR radio.

Read more: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/06/26/hagar-harry-reid-convinced-ufo-sightings-real-defends-funding-secret-research/1576640001/

[hlthe2b]

1. Unidentified does not automatically mean unidentifiable; it means unexplained.

The contemptuous ridiculing attitudes that typically accompany such discussions are harmful, IMO.