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Posted Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:47 AM
https://weather.com/science/space/vi...fos-watch-this
"And these jive with a lot of the other reports and testimony from other pilots of these - what they call Tic Tacs. Basically, these aircraft look like a Tic Tac, the breath mint, in terms of this oblong shape that could go, you know, from tens of thousands of feet up, down to the surface level of the ocean in a very short period of time. And again, there were dozens of these reports that this office the Pentagon established in 2009 that were investigated."
-Politico's Bryan Bender, one of the reporters who publicly revealed the existence of the Pentagon program for the first time
https://www.npr.org/.../571.../the-p...earch-for-ufos
"There's a whole fleet of them. Look on the S.A. My gosh, they're all going against the wind. The wind is 120 knots to the west."
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/17/57144...earch-for-ufos
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was a secret investigatory effort funded by the United States government to study unidentified flying objects, but it was not classified. It was first made public on December 16, 2017.
https://qz.com/1158998/the-pentagon-...ation-program/
The program began in 2007, with funding of $22 million over the five years until the available appropriations were ended in 2012.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/u...arry-reid.html
https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...ry-reid-216111
The program began in the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. Although the official AATIP program has ended, a related group of interested professionals have extended the effort in a nonprofit organization called, 'To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science.'
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/36...ounters-report
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/s...ce-travel.html