Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

Event Covered
Exposed Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), intelligence official Luis Elizondo and funding of the AATIP program
Original Publisher Name
New York Times
Publication Date
2017-12-16
Author / Reporter
Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean
Article Summary
This article exposed a secretive Department of Defense initiative dedicated to investigating unidentified flying objects. It is widely credited with catalyzing the modern era of mainstream government and public UAP discourse.