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AATIP revealed by the New York Times

Infrared targeting-pod video frame with a small dark object at center
A frame from the Navy FLIR1 video, one of the two videos published with the Times story United States Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The New York Times reported that the Pentagon had run a little-known Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, funded with about $22 million from 2008 to 2011. The story ran with two Navy videos and said Luis Elizondo had led the program.

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  1. OfficialOpen transcript, House Intelligence subcommittee hearing on UAP (Chairman Carson: 'In 2017, we learned...')Congress.gov / 2022-05-17
  2. PressGlowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program (Cooper, Blumenthal, Kean), republishedThe New York Times, via Boston.com / 2017-12-16

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