Harry Reid and Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)
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Reid secured the initial $22 million in black budget funding for AATIP with support from Stevens and Inouye.
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Harry Reid
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The late Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) was instrumental in securing the initial $22 million in funding for AATIP in 2007, working with senators Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye. Reid maintained until his death in 2021 that the government possessed UAP crash materials and that the program he funded had produced significant findings. He called the Pentagon's handling of the UAP issue "one of the greatest cover-ups in the history of our country."
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Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)
organization
Name widely used for a DIA-managed Pentagon UAP study (officially AAWSAP, 2009-2012), revealed in Dec. 2017; its funding, dates and leadership are disputed.
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