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When the Pentagon tracks UFOs

2022-05-25T18:06:11.815Z


INVESTIGATION - "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (UAP) are no longer taboo in the United States Air Force. On the contrary, the Department of Defense has launched a study program, spurred on by Congress to communicate its findings - and the defensive measures that...


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There was a time when US Navy and US Air Force fighter pilots preferred to keep quiet about what they saw “up there”.

Professionals to the hilt, they couldn't afford to be ridiculed by their peers.

Would we entrust the defense of airspace to aviators just as credulous as the fans of the mystery of Roswell, this remote corner of New Mexico where a flying saucer is said to have crashed in 1947?

Laying a flight report reporting a “third type encounter” was the assurance of seeing his career cut short.

Until that day in 2017 when two American media,

Politico

and the

New York Times

, revealed the existence of a secret Pentagon program called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

Created ten years earlier within the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and funded to the tune of $22 million, this highly confidential program was reportedly officially dismantled in 2012. But its former…

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Source: lefigaro

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