Harry Reid on Lockheed's UFO fragments
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Contents 8
| Date | 1 May 2021 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Harry Reid |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 198 |
| Year | 2021 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2021 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
In 2021 former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told The New Yorker that he had been told for decades that the defence contractor Lockheed Martin held fragments recovered from UFOs, and that when he sought a classified briefing to look into it, the Pentagon refused to grant him access.[1][2]
The interview
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Reid, who had secured funding for the Pentagon's AAWSAP program in 2007–2008, spoke to reporter Gideon Lewis-Kraus for a long New Yorker article on the government and UFOs, published in April–May 2021. He said he had been told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials, and that he had tried to obtain classified approval to look at them, but the Pentagon would not give it to him.[1][2]
Reid's position
Reid said he had never seen proof himself, but believed the claims deserved investigation. Lockheed Martin did not respond to requests for comment.[1][3]
Background
Reid had pressed for access to such material before: in June 2009 he asked the Deputy Secretary of Defense to make AAWSAP a special access program, a request refused that November, and one account of the program says he was partly motivated by his inability to get classified access to alleged crash materials.[4]
Significance
Reid's comments were significant because of his former position as one of the most powerful people in Congress, and they supported the idea that UAP material, if it exists, is held by contractors beyond normal oversight. The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office later said it had found no evidence of such holdings. Reid died on 28 December 2021.[3][5]
People and topics
- Harry Reid — Senate Majority Leader who arranged funding for AAWSAP.
- Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Marcel family Roswell debris (12 December 2020) — Jesse Marcel's grandson says his family held unusual Roswell debris.
- Insider on oversight without access (2021) (1 May 2021) — An anonymous insider tells a researcher that officials with oversight lack access to UAP information.
See every 2021 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Harry Reid says he sought UFO debris from Lockheed Martin, but Pentagon nixed 'classified approval'", Just the News (May 2021) · justthenews.com · archived copy
- "Harry Reid says Lockheed Martin has UFO fragments", Fox News · foxnews.com · archived copy
- Harry Reid — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Justin Snead, "Timeline of modern UFO investigations: AAWSAP to AARO" · justinsnead.substack.com · archived copy
- "Pentagon UFO office finds 'no empirical evidence' for alien technology in new report", Space.com (Mar 2024) · space.com · archived copy
- salon.com · salon.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Skunk Works — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Harry Reid — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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