Recently Released Pentagon UFO Footage "Only Scratches the Surface," Says Former Senate Majority Leader

Harry Reid led the Senate's Democratic Conference from 2005 to 2017 and was the Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015.

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tweeted last Monday that he is "glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available,” following the Department of Defense's (DoD) statement authorizing the release of three unclassified UFO videos.

“The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications,” he added. “The American people deserve to be informed."

I’m glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed. https://t.co/1XNduvmP0u
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) April 27, 2020

Senator Reid has long been a vocal supporter of UFO research, and in 2017 it was revealed that he sponsored the Pentagon’s Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which was reportedly run from 2007 until 2012.

The former senator has spoken out consistently in response to the Pentagon's significant wafflling in its position regarding UFOs and the purpose of AATIP in their study—at times different spokespersons for the Pentagon have supplied statements that directly contradict each other on the purpose of the secretive program.

The Pentagon’s narrative has been strongly contradicted by Senator Reid and Luis Elizondo—a former DoD intelligence officer who claims to have been program head for the AATIP, and who currently serves as the Director of Global Security and Special Programs for To the Stars…Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA)—both of whom maintain that the AATIP’s primary focus was the investigation of UFOs.

Elizondo insisted that the “AATIP itself spent its entire time on UFOs,” while Senator Reid said in a statement that “AATIP was my program. One can say whatever, but the truth is it was for only one purpose—to study UFOs.”

Finally, in an article for Popular Mechanics, journalist Tim McMillan traced a path through a byzantine maze of government documents and insider testimony to show that the AATIP was interested in studying UFOs after all, despite statements to the contrary made by Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough.

Senator Reid’s statement made earlier this week would seem to imply that there is much more that the Pentagon isn’t making public about UFOs, something perhaps reinforced by the subterfuge displayed so far.

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