

From 1966 to 1968, the University of Colorado’s UFO Project, which lead to the publication of the tome heavy Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, was funded by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research. That program, along with the even lesser known Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program, saw the involvement of such proponents of extra-terrestrial life as billionaire Robert Bigelow. Reid (D-Nev.) first began tooting the horn on the subject, a measure that led to the creation of the $22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. This came a decade after Senate majority leader Harry M. Since 2017, various eyewitness accounts and videos have been circulating in such measure as to worry members of Congress. There will be many “I told you so” moments and no one will be any wiser. For sceptics, it will be a case of tired yawn before returning to work. For those exercised about green creatures, ancient aliens and that roguish charlatan Erich von Däniken, nothing would have changed. On June 25, the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force will release a declassified report to Congress that will do little to shift ground or alter debate on the nature of such phenomena. The less exciting and dull term accepted by the defence clerks – unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – is renewing its march into the extra-terrestrial hinterland.

Those of you drawing sustenance and stimulation from the traditional acronym UFO best brace yourselves.
