Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program information
US government program to investigate UFOs
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Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
Successor
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
Formation
2007
Dissolved
2012
Type
United States governmental study
Legal status
Secret program, formally disbanded
Purpose
Study of unidentified flying objects
Budget
$22 million over 5 years
The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)[1] was an unclassified but unpublicized investigatory effort funded by the United States Government to study unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP).[2] The program was first made public on December 16, 2017. The program began in 2007, with funding of $22 million over the five years until the available appropriations were ended in 2012.[3][4][5] The program began in the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.[6]
According to the Department of Defense, the AATIP ended in 2012 after five years, however reporting suggested that U.S. government programs to investigate UFOs continued.[7] This was confirmed in June 2020 with the acknowledgement of a similar military program, the unclassified but previously unreported Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.[8] Luis Elizondo, who has claimed to be the AATIP program director,[9][10][11] later worked for To The Stars... Academy of Arts & Science.[12][13][14]
^Siese, April (December 16, 2017). "The Pentagon has confirmed its $22M program to investigate UFOs". Quartz. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
^Blumenthal, Ralph; Kean, Leslie (May 14, 2020). "Navy Reports Describe Encounters With Unexplained Flying Objects – While some of the encounters have been reported publicly before, the Navy records are an official accounting of the incidents, including descriptions from the pilots of what they saw". The New York Times. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
^Cooper, Helene; Blumenthal, Ralph; Kean, Leslie (December 16, 2017). "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program". The New York Times. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
^Bender, Bryan (December 16, 2017). "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs". Politico. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
^Benson, Eric (March 21, 2018). "Harry Reid on What the Government Knows About UFOs". New York Magazine. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
^Greenwood, Max (December 16, 2017). "Pentagon acknowledges program to investigate UFO encounters: report". The Hill. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
^Blumenthal, Ralph (December 18, 2017). "On the Trail of a Secret Pentagon U.F.O. Program". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
^Blumenthal, Ralph (July 23, 2020). "No longer in the shadows, Pentagon's UFO unit will make some findings public". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
^Chow, Denice (May 19, 2021). "UFOs are about to make their way to the U.S. Senate. Here's what to know". NBCNews.com. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
^Levine, Art. "Spaceship of Fools". The Washington Spectator. Hamilton Fish. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
^Kloor, Keith. "The Media Loves this UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for an Obscure Pentagon Program. Did He?". The Intercept. The Intercept. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
^Overbye, Dennis (December 29, 2017). "U.F.O.s: Is This All There Is?". The New York Times. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
^Mellon, Christopher (March 9, 2018). "The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn't the Pentagon care? – We have no idea what's behind these weird incidents because we're not investigating". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
^Cox, Billy (January 3, 2021). "From the shadows into the light – the man who broke the UFO embargo grew up in Sarasota". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
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