Case file · Official inquiry
Harry Reid's 2009 letter on AATIP
In June 2009 Senator Harry Reid wrote to Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn about the secret UFO programme he had started, describing 'much progress'.
2009 CE · 38.89, -77.01 · status: official
The account
Reid had launched the programme (as AAWSAP) in 2007 at Robert Bigelow's urging. His letter asked for it to be protected as a restricted special access programme. Journalists George Knapp and Matt Adams later published the letter, and in 2019 Reid publicly defended the programme's legacy.
The sceptical view
The request for special-access status was not granted, and the programme's funding ended in 2012.
Connections in the atlas
- Harry Reid: Told the New Yorker: "I was told for decades that Lockheed h
- Harry Reid
- Harry Reid
- Robert Bigelow
- George Knapp
- AAWSAP: the DIA contract
- AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program)
- AAWSAP at Skinwalker Ranch