Michael S. Rosenwald15:57, May 24 2021
In 2007, United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called his colleagues Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye to a specially secured room in the US Capitol where highly classified information was discussed. Stevens, a Republican from Alaska, and Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii, controlled funding for supersecret Pentagon operations. Reid wanted to put an idea on their radar, one that needed to be kept hush-hush not just for national security but because it was, as Reid s aides told him, kind of crazy. He wanted the Pentagon to investigate UFOs. “Everyone told me this would cause me nothing but trouble,” said Reid, a Democrat who represented Nevada, home of the military s top-secret Area 51 test site, a central attraction of sorts for UFO hunters. “But I wasn t afraid of it. And I guess time has proven me right.”
The director of national intelligence is expected to unveil an unclassified report next month on everything government agencies know about UFOs, including scores of unusual sightings by military pilots.