(Reid passed away in December from pancreatic cancer.) Last year, a lengthy report in The New Yorker revealed that Reid suspected Lockheed Martin, the American aerospace firm, had recovered fragments from a UFO that had crashed in the United States.

This is not the first time that the public has been made aware of Reid's concerns about UFOs.

The American people deserve to be informed.' needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. One document shows Reid requesting a 'restricted special access program' for work being conducted by BLASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies), which had been awarded a $12 million contract to study 'advanced aerospace weapon threats from the present out to 40 years in the future.' Although Reid pointed out how BLASS had identified 'several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace technologies' which required 'extraordinary protection,' he was not allowed to conduct the level of investigation that he wanted. Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who served as Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015, fought to learn more about UFO technology that he believed had been acquired by government contractors. The documents also reveal that former Sen. Other documents describe efforts to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations, plans for exploring and colonizing deep space, and studying ways to pioneer technology like mind-controlled robots and invisibility cloaks. If a person claims to have observed a UFO that had extraterrestrials on board, for instance, they are categorized as 'CE3.' By contrast, someone who says they encountered 'ghosts, yetis, spirits, elves and other mythical/legendary entities' is classified as 'AN3.' Want more health and science stories in your inbox? Subscribe to Salon's weekly newsletter The Vulgar Scientist.Īnother document from the cache contains a rubric for categorizing different types of seemingly paranormal experiences. A report speculates that these could be caused by 'energy related propulsion systems' and warns that the underlying technology could pose a 'threat to United States interests.' Additionally, in cases that would not seem out of place in an ' X-Files' episode, there were accounts of 'apparent abduction' and 'unaccounted for pregnancy.' The Pentagon documents state that people who observed unidentified flying objects frequently displayed a cluster of similar physical symptoms: Injuries consistent with exposure to electromagnetic radiation (such as burns), heart ailments, and sleep disturbances.

RELATED: The hidden links between conspiracy theories government withheld some of the requested documents in the new release, claiming there were privacy and confidentiality concerns, the materials that were produced are bound to fuel rampant speculation among the large community of UFO conspiracy theorists. Its existence only became known to the public after former program director Luis Elizondo resigned from the Pentagon in 2017 and released videos of unidentified, fast-moving aircraft. Now the release of more than 1,500 pages of documents reveals that the agency compiled bizarre stories of unaccounted pregnancies, radiation burns and even brain damage during a secretive stretch from 2007 to 2012.įirst published in the British tabloid The Sun in compliance with a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request, the collection of documents was originally created by AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program). Department of Defense ran a program that monitored reports of human encounters with UFOs (unidentified flying objects).

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