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Ran the AAWSAP/AATIP research contracts and continues to support AARO's technical and historical analysis.
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Holds classified UFO/UAP-related signals intelligence files; current AARO director previously served at NSA.
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Investigated select UFO reports over the decades and maintains historical case files, including Roswell-era and Kecksburg records.
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Investigated early Cold War-era sightings and later acknowledged that its own U-2 and SR-71 spy plane programs explained many 1950s-60s reports.
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Air Force-funded academic study that concluded UFOs did not merit further scientific investigation.
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CIA-convened scientific panel that reviewed UFO evidence and recommended public education and debunking efforts to reduce reports.
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Second official Air Force UFO study, created after Project Sign was disbanded; generally skeptical in its conclusions.
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The US Air Force's first official UFO investigation, created after the 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting and Roswell incident.
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Self-described secret space program whistleblower whose extensive claims of decades of covert off-world activity remain entirely unverified and widely disputed.
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Former American University professor who left academia to found the field of 'exopolitics' and has promoted extensive claims about secret space programs.