Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Harry Reid
US senator from Nevada (1939–2021) and Senate majority leader who secured secret funding for the Pentagon's UFO programme in 2007.
2007 CE · 38.89, -77.01 · status: official
The account
Reid led Senate Democrats from 2005 to 2017. At Robert Bigelow's urging he started the programme (as AAWSAP) in 2007, wrote in 2009 seeking protected status for it, and after the 2017 revelations publicly defended its legacy, saying the subject deserved serious study.
The sceptical view
Critics noted that most of the money went to a single Nevada contractor and that the work produced no evidence of alien technology.
Connections in the atlas
- Harry Reid
- Harry Reid's 2009 letter on AATIP
- ▶ The government UFO files
- Robert Bigelow
- AAWSAP: the DIA contract
- AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program)
- The New York Times reveals AATIP
- AAWSAP at Skinwalker Ranch