Pentagon

“The US Department of War constructed the building at the beginning of World War II”

“Twenty-two thousand people work there, the population of a large university campus.”

“it has eleven corridors arranged like the spokes of a wheel, so you can reach any location on foot in five minutes”

“a now retired former US Army special forces and military intelligence Colonel John Alexander, who worked on a notorious US Defence Department remote viewing program in the 1970s and 1980s. He was one of the Pentagon 'Jedi warriors' exploring fringe ideas like purported psychic phenomena and remote viewing as potential non-lethal weapons. It was John Alexander who initiated what New York Times reporter Howard Blum revealed in 1990 to be a secret UFO Working Group at the Pentagon”

“When Greer went into the Pentagon in April 1997 as part of an unusual group of UFO disclosure activists and former military servicemen and was escorted to the innermost ring of America's military headquarters, the offices of the Deputy Director of the US Defence Intelligence Agency”

“The next day, at 10 am on 10 April 1997, Greer, Mitchell and company were deep inside the Pentagon for their top-level meeting. Another attendee was recently retired US Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander Willard Miller”

“'I remember Gordon very well,' he laughed... Sur even remembered his father flourishing McCandlish's drawing of the ARV craft at Kobitz in his Pentagon office.”

“He hadn't given UFOs a second thought until 2008. That's when he was asked to join something at the Pentagon called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP.”

“Buried away in the Pentagon, AATIP was part of a $22 million program”

“My new base of operations was office 3C503A—third floor, C-ring, fifth corridor, alpha suite—in the Pentagon.”

“in June 2009, then Senator Harry Reid wrote to the US Secretary of Defence requesting the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) be given the status of a Special Access Program (SAP). The Senator's letter gave clues as to why such strict classification was now necessary, asserting that 'substantial progress' had been made with the identification of 'several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings.'”

“Reid said, 'Yeah, that's why I wanted them to take a look at it. But they wouldn't give me the clearance.'”

“Much of the Pentagon funding went to a Robert Bigelow company, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS).”

“While Senator Harry Reid's AAWSAP funding from Congress ran out in 2012, Elizondo maintains that the Pentagon secretly continued its investigations into UAPs.”

“I'd just returned from an international work trip when I learned that our friend Hal was in town and visiting the Pentagon. He had news to share and was waiting for us in a SCIF.”

“leadership saw a great bucket of weirdness that was not within their usual daily lists of tasks. They did not want to be associated with the historical stigma around UFOs.”

“In 2017, after nine years in AATIP and its Department of Defence replacement, Luis Elizondo left the Pentagon because his efforts to investigate UAPs were being obstructed from within.”

“until finally, frustrated, he quit the Pentagon in 2017, but not before getting these three videos declassified”

“Then in December 2017, everything changed. One of the world's greatest newspapers, The New York Times, revealed the existence of a Pentagon unit secretly investigating UFOs.”

“The Pentagon's spokesperson at the time, Christopher Sherwood, suddenly denied I had any involvement in AATIP.”

“He replied that it would be wrong of them to do that and said it wasn't true, but they ran with the fake and damaging narrative anyway.”

“In April last year, here at the Pentagon, the US Department of Defense made an unprecedented admission. It acknowledged that the videos taken by their fighter pilots of unidentified objects are real.”

“On 27 April 2020, the US Defence Department officially released three of the previously published UFO videos taken by the US Navy pilots in 2004 and 2014–15. The Pentagon admitted, 'the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as "unidentified"'.”

“This past August, the Pentagon resurrected AATIP. It's now called the UAP Task Force.”

“Ronald S. Moultrie, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and Scott W. Bray, the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, publicly acknowledged that UAPs posed potential flight safety and general security risks … they admitted that since a preliminary UAP report in mid-2021 the Pentagon's UAP team was now investigating 400 unresolved UAP incidents.”

“The year started with a new public report on UAP activity released by the Pentagon, reporting over three hundred UAP events just since 2021”

“Section 1673, intriguingly headed 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Reporting Procedures' (my emphasis), was tucked away in the thousands of pages of the 2023 budgetary appropriation authorisations for the US Department of Defense, the so-called National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA). It creates a 'secure method' allowing current or former government employees or contractors to submit UAP-related information to the Pentagon UAP office”

“A still of the so-called 'Gimbal' UAP, from the official US Navy video of a 2014 or 2015 encounter. This video was taken by a navy fighter jet from the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, off the eastern seaboard, near the Florida coast. The Pentagon says the video is real and, officially, unexplained.”