Those who have long insisted UFOs are real have spent decades arguing that the US government has been covering up possible alien visitors. Now they don't seem so crazy.
UFO enthusiasts and passionate alien believers everywhere will likely love to know that the Pentagon has finally admitted to investigating UFOs, after years of denying their possible existence, New York Post reported.
But it essentially amounts to the same thing - potential alien spacecraft.
In an exclusive interview with the Post, a Department of Defense spokesman said there was once a secret government initiative known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) whose purpose was to "pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena."
DOD spokesman Christopher Sherwood told the Post, "The Department of Defense is always concerned about maintaining positive identification of all aircraft in our operating environment, as well as identifying any foreign capability that may be a threat to the homeland."
So basically, the American government is on top of all those crazy UFO sightings all along. Who knew? (Well, a lot of government skeptics did.)
UK defense official Nick Pope spent the 1990s investigating UFOs.
"Previous official statements were ambiguous and left the door open to the possibility that AATIP was simply concerned with next-generation aviation threats from aircraft, missiles, and drones - as skeptics claimed."
Some are shocked with how frank the Pentagon's comments were, including John Greenwald Jr., the man behind the website The Black Vault, who archives declassified government documents on Bigfoot, aliens, and other so-called "conspiracy theories."
"I'm shocked they said it that way, and the reason is, they've seemingly worked very hard not to say that," Greenwald said.
"I think that's a pretty powerful statement," Greenwald said, "because now we have actual evidence - official evidence - that said, 'Yes, AATIP did deal with UAP cases, phenomena, videos, photos, whatever.'"
Greenwald said he hopes the Pentagon will release further information regarding the AATIP and its investigations of potential alien spacecraft.
Well no, not quite.
But it does mean the government isn't as closed-minded to their existence as we were once led to believe. And that itself is pretty huge.
h/t: New York Post
