Nothing to see here… The government admits it studies UFOs- Mason Crumpacker

Summary:  On December 16, following the release by the Department of Defense of U.S. fighter jet radar footage documenting “anomalous aerial vehicles,” the Pentagon confirmed the existence of a $22 million government program to research UFOs.

Rumors have swirled for decades around clandestine operations into extraterrestrial encounters  in the American southwest.   It seems indisputable that something of great signification and national security occured in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.  Debris from an mysterious crash was removed by the military in armored vehicles.  Then in 1955,  Area 51 was approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in as a testing strip in Nevada for top secret aircraft.  Likely neither Roswell nor Area 51 involved alien encounters, but the admitted existence of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, and its hefty budget, has conspiracy theorists feeling vindicated.

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Analysis: Much of the speculation and mistrust of the government regarding UFOs likely results from actual secret government military programs such as the Manhattan Project leading to the development of nuclear weapons or unethical medical experiments such as those performed at the Willowbrook School where mentally disabled children were infected with hepatitis to test a vaccine.  When programs such as these become known to the general public, it becomes easy to believe that the government is engaged even more radical programs.  Besides, it is fun to believe in UFOs and Stranger Things.