Pentagon Admits to Funding Alien Research Program

The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, taken from an airplane in January 2008. David B. Gleason/Wikimedia Commons

Pentagon officials confirmed that millions in government money supported a program to collect information on unexplained aerial phenomenon.

The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification program continues today, but without government money, according to military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, via The New York Times. The program received government funding starting in 2007 until it was defunded in 2012.