NYT: The Pentagon's Mysterious UFO Program

[Achilleaze]

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

WASHINGTON — 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...

The story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html?emc=edit_ta_20171216&nl=top-stories&nlid=47943027&ref=cta

[Achilleaze]

1. I for one welcome our new Mysterious Glowing Aura UFO Overlords

[Achilleaze]

2. Interesting video of an encounter between a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet and an unknown object

at the very top on the Times page with this story...link in OP

"Unknown" really is the key word...

[2naSalit]

3. When you have lots of

dark sky at night, there's a whole bunch of stuff that you can see flying around out there. Just a pair of decent binos are enough to make you stay in the house at night for a week or so after seeing all the other stuff you wouldn't see with the naked eye.

I'm surprised that vid was even released.

[bathroommonkey76]

4. I have seen dozens of unidentified objects

in the sky. My telescope, camera, and binoculars have recorded some of those events, too. The articles from Politico and the NYT aren't surprising to me b/c I've seen this shit for 30+ years.