Resignation Over Secrecy: The Pentagon's AATIP and Its Unreleased 490-Page Findings

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Luis Elizondo, who ran the Pentagon’s UFO program, reportedly quit in protest of secrecy, as a $22 million effort linked to Robert Bigelow after talks with Harry Reid produced an unpublished 490‑page findings report whose fate after 2012 remains unclear, while supporters push for further study and skeptics like Andrew Siemion and Seth Shostak say there is no definitive evidence of alien visitation, all within a long history of government and scientific searches for nonhuman intelligence that have yielded mostly inconclusive results.

What Weve Learned From 60 Years of U.S.-Funded UFO Probes
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What Weve Learned From 60 Years of U.S.-Funded UFO Probes

The newly revealed Pentagon program is certainly not the first federally funded project to hunt for signs of advanced intelligence in the galaxy.