• https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry- reid.html Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program Bondosan Crab Key 26 minutes ago Er...this is a very peculiar article. Yes, the fact that the money went to a billionaire friend of Harry Reid's is very concerning. On the other hand, if, as the piece claims, actual physical objects have been found and are being stored and studied, then this really should be public knowledge. • Reply • 5Recommend Amy Brooklyn 26 minutes ago This is the best argument I've heard today for the Republican plans to cut the size of government. • Reply • 1Recommend Peter S Western Canada 26 minutes ago Don't worry, any visitors must have long ago decided there is no intelligent life here; they know we have nuclear weapons, and that they are aimed at ourselves. • Reply • 3Recommend 1 Shay New York 26 minutes ago Unlike many of the clips and "evidence" seen in the past, Now we have the NYTimes getting some facts through the door. The question is, what now? This article brings so many questions. I want a follow-up! * What did they find out? * Where all this phenomenon explained? * Are there any evidence that such a program was is still in existence? * What happens in other countries? * Almost as if Area 51 was not to be mentioned... why? This is the right area (and the right senator?) Keep it coming! • Reply • 1Recommend Joe B. Center City 26 minutes ago Three people decide to spend millions to chase ghosts. Isn't this already a TV show? • Reply • 1Recommend John earth 26 minutes ago A politician giving his buddy tens of millions in taxpayer money. What a shock. This would probably have far more credibility if the money had gone to someone who wasn't a buddy of Reid. Maybe the UFOs are humans time traveling from the future. If there is alien life (most likely there is) then I have a hard time believing that it'd waste its time coming to this planet unless it is just to get a laugh at what a joke humanity has become. • Reply • 1Recommend woodswoman boston 26 minutes ago 2 The US Military has been studying this phenomena for decades, spurred on by reports of encounters from credible and experienced personnel. To suppose that their interest has died a natural death is simply unreasonable, given the seriousness of the subject. Just as we haven't known about Reid's efforts till now, we'll no doubt be reading the disclosures of continued efforts by our government to understand the nature and origin of UAP's at some point in the future. The NY Times has opened the door for other well respected publications to begin a legitimate conversation on the subject; they are to be commended for it. Perhaps now the discussion will be elevated from the realms of voodoo theory and knee jerk skepticism into an intelligent, scientific discourse upon what so many pilots and nuclear personnel, as well as the public, have been reporting upon for years. I can think of nothing more exciting than the possibility that we are not here in the universe alone. • Reply • 1Recommend Nina MT 27 minutes ago Having an Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification is almost hilarious. Of course the military would consider these as "threats", but honestly our "advanced" technology could not even come close to whatever is advanced enough to be zooming around and coming to visit. Perhaps music and the arts would a wiser greeting for such a phenomenon and not the Pentagon's "everything is a threat" program. • Reply • Recommend Minnie Paris 27 minutes ago Cool ! Thanks NYT for the article. Humans who think UFOs / alien life doesn't exist are woefully self-important. Statistically, we simply cannot be the center of universe. • Reply • 1Recommend Margaret Fl 27 minutes ago What else do we have Harry Reid to thank for besides sci fi nonsense and the "nuclear option" he instituted during the Obama administration, which means no more filibusters, no more 60 votes needed to get anything through Congress. 3 I am shaking with anger at the waste of tax payer money, considering we live almost in a third world country, poverty wise, and our infrastructure is literally falling apart. Oh, and the deficit. Etc. How absurd. One little man from Nevada, and look at the bill he ran up. • Reply • Recommend Steve Fankuchen Oakland, CA 27 minutes ago Of course this research has to be classified. That's the only way we can prevent the aliens from learning that they do, in fact, exist. Nonetheless, we do need to take precautions in case they hack into the Pentagon's computers. We must make Will Smith the new director of the program and broadcast "Independence Day" on all channels from Areceibo, Mauna Kea, and the Very Large Array, so they'll know not to mess with us. We also need to seriously consider the behavioral evidence emanating from the Oval Office that aliens already have taken up residence here. In addition, I have it from unidentifiable, unimpeachable sources that Presidential tweets have been identified as originating in Alpha Centauri. • Reply • 1Recommend Richard New Jersey 27 minutes ago Quite a sophisticated way for a government official to channel taxpayer money to a friend. Sad. • Reply • 2Recommend Hans Starlife Helsingborg, Sweden 27 minutes ago Everyone always links UFOs with aliens. It doesn't matter what it is: as soon as you noticed something unidentified or unexplained - anything - it's in everyone's interest to investigate it, and provide enough funding for this. 4 • Reply • Recommend BlueWaterSong California 27 minutes ago Seriously, nobody noticed it was just a fly on the lens? • Reply • 1Recommend MaryKayklassen Mountain Lake, Minnesota 27 minutes ago Being worried about what the Russian government is capable of here on earth in regards to hacking, cutting underwater transatlanticcables that carry transactions for Amazon, online banking, international phone calls, intelligence, is in my opinion where time and money should be spent. • Reply • Recommend Joel Ann Arbor 27 minutes ago Pardon my skepticism. Not at the possible existence of UFOs, but at the folly of spending money on research. People who still find it possible to deny the existence of climate change after decades of nearly-incontrovertible evidence are unlikely to accept the existence of what they'll quickly brand as "little green men". #FAKENEWS • Reply • Recommend Mitzi Reinbold Oley, PA 27 minutes ago Disclaimer: I write stories with a bit of a paranormal/supernatural bent and I have a Facebook page that posts articles about weird things (www.facebook.com/MitziFlyteAuthor) 5 For hundreds of years most of the natural phenomena we accept now in the 21st Century were considered magical or supernatural. Scientific evidence-based discovery (bad words these days) was based on people of knowledge looking at some "supernatural" and saying, "What is that really?" Therefore, how can a department (no matter whose department it is...) that reviews these phenomena and attempts to define them be wrong? Imagine what we could find in our universe if we open our minds? You don't need a tinfoil hat to want to explore what could be real. Luis Elizondo, is retired as director and won't name is successor. Maybe, we can hope, it's a man named Mulder. • Reply • Recommend Ena Arel Massachusetts 27 minutes ago I am curious what prompted the publication of this article at this time.... The government has made announcements of doing research on UFOs and ESP in the past. Was it the fact that the protagoninst resigned? Was it the formation of the new school? Furthermore, the possibility that branch races coexist on the planet with us is not explored. ETs may be unlikely, but a race living under the ocean (which is largely unexplored) is less unlikely. Furthermore, Europe, Russia, China, and Chile have made similar studies and publically announced many cases still being unexplained. What got me in the article is that there is alleged stockpiles of tangible evidence of beyond- next-generation technology. This evidence was not from any country, apparently. "Now that is interesting..." (to quote movie Contact). • Reply • Recommend Josh 27 minutes ago The credulity indicated by this article is rather disturbing. Thankfully, the editor demanded interviews of Seager and Oberg, but the problem here is that these reports, such as they are, do not have the quality that a scientist requires. Astronomers all know that strange things are seen from time-to-time. The ones that are best measured are almost always identified. (c.f. http://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2013/12/01/astronomers-and-ufos/} The ones that are less well-documented get put on the pile of "unidentified". The leap from "I saw a light" to "Aliens are among us" is a vast one that fails a simple test called "Ockham's Razor". A good investigative report would have looked into how such a razor could be (and apparently has been) taken to these claims. 6 • Reply • Recommend ExhaustedFightingForJusticeEveryDay In America 27 minutes ago This is very similar to a hyper secretive programs on mind control, and all kinds of neurological manipulations, that few people wrote about decades after they left their CIA and/or secret military intelligence research programs. You can catch books on these on Amazon. Some of these issues were used in novels and movies, like Bourne Identity one supposes. Not only was that frightening, disturbing and extremely undemocratic...but it is also the kind of stuff that works against safe survival and development of the human race.