AATIP
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36 records tagged program
Incidents
6 incidents
Multiple U.S. Navy personnel from Carrier Strike Group Eleven tracked and visually encountered a white, wingless, Tic Tac-shaped craft…
Two declassified U.S. Navy FLIR videos — GIMBAL and GO FAST — captured by F/A-18 Super Hornet crews from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in…
Multi-platform radar and visual encounter with UFO over ICBM complex, witnessed by B-52 crew, ground personnel, and missile launch facility…
A U.S. national security whistleblower publicly revealed the existence of an alleged Pentagon UAP surveillance and reverse-engineering…
Advanced radar and visual encounter aboard USS Nimitz involving military fighter jets and an unidentified aerial object with anomalous…
Public disclosure of Immaculate Constellation, an alleged unacknowledged Special Access Program managing UAP reconnaissance and…
Personalities
30 people
Matthew Alan LivelsbergerEvidence rated DocumentedU.S. Army Master Sergeant and Green Beret who alleged classified UAP programs used gravitic propulsion systems, made public in manifesto one day before his death in the 2025 Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion.Paul R. HillEvidence rated DocumentedNASA aeronautical engineer who analyzed UFO flight mechanics and propulsion through scientific reverse-engineering.Kit GreenEvidence rated DocumentedCIA neuroscientist and remote viewing researcher who bridged intelligence UFO programs and modern UAP science.James T. LacatskiEvidence rated ContestedDefense Intelligence Agency rocket scientist who architected AAWSAP — the largest and longest-running secret U.S. government UAP investigation — and later claimed that by 2011 he had briefed senior officials on a recovered craft of non-human origin.Michio KakuEvidence rated DocumentedTheoretical physicist and co-founder of string field theory who became one of the most scientifically credentialed voices arguing that UAP disclosure warrants serious, rigorous attention.Helene CooperEvidence rated DocumentedPentagon correspondent who co-authored the 2017 New York Times AATIP breakthrough that brought classified military UFO investigations into mainstream discoursePaul H. SmithEvidence rated DocumentedRemote viewing operations officer, Stargate program instructor, and leading authority on military psychic espionage.Luis "Lue" ElizondoEvidence rated DocumentedSenior Pentagon intelligence official and AATIP director who publicly disclosed classified UAP investigation program in 2017, pioneering modern government transparency efforts.Maurice ChatelainEvidence rated ContestedFrench-American aerospace engineer who claimed Apollo astronauts encountered UFOs during Moon missions.Paul R. CzyszEvidence rated DocumentedAerospace engineer and UFO witness who spent 30+ years on classified propulsion projects at McDonnell Douglas and became a key contributor to UAP research.Jeremy CorbellEvidence rated DocumentedInvestigative filmmaker who released authenticated Navy UAP footage and directed the landmark Netflix documentary on Bob Lazar.Jay StrattonEvidence rated DocumentedFormer director of the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, the highest-ranking U.S. government official to lead a UAP investigation.Kirk McConnellEvidence rated DocumentedRetired Senate staffer and UAP policy architect advocating for disclosure of alleged recovered craft programsSean CahillEvidence rated DocumentedRetired Navy Chief Master-At-Arms and direct witness to the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter.William Neil McCaslandEvidence rated DocumentedRetired Air Force Major General commanding AFRL at Wright-Patterson AFB who disappeared February 2026 amid speculation linking him to classified UAP programs.Leslie KeanEvidence rated DocumentedInvestigative journalist who brought serious UFO reporting into mainstream media and revealed the Pentagon's AATIP program.Christopher Karl MellonEvidence rated DocumentedPentagon intelligence official and architect of modern UAP disclosure who leaked classified Navy videos to the New York Times in 2017.Lue ElizondoEvidence rated DocumentedFormer AATIP director and Pentagon intelligence officer who triggered the 2017 UAP disclosure by going public with the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.Harold E. PuthoffEvidence rated ContestedPhysicist and parapsychologist who directed CIA-funded remote viewing research and advised Pentagon UAP programs.Ingo SwannEvidence rated ContestedRemote viewing pioneer, Stargate Project participant, and UFO contactee whose claimed extrasensory experiments bridged military intelligence and paranormal claims.Luis ElizondoEvidence rated DocumentedPentagon intelligence officer who led AATIP and became the face of modern U.S. government UFO/UAP disclosure.Tom DeLongeEvidence rated DocumentedRock musician and disclosure advocate who founded To The Stars Academy and introduced declassified Pentagon UAP videos to mainstream media in 2017.Robert HastingsEvidence rated ContestedUFO researcher who compiled 160+ military officer interviews on nuclear weapons incidents and hosted the landmark 2010 National Press Club disclosure conference.Harry ReidEvidence rated DocumentedNevada senator and Senate Majority Leader who pushed the Pentagon's secret UFO research program (AATIP) into existence in 2007 and later said he believed crashes of unknown objects may have occurredHarold E. PuthoffEvidence rated ContestedPhysicist who directed the CIA-funded remote viewing program at SRI and became a central scientific figure in the modern UAP disclosure movement through AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.Eric W. DavisEvidence rated DocumentedAstrophysicist and breakthrough propulsion theorist who brought mainstream physics credentials to UAP research through NIDS and classified government programs.Carl SaganEvidence rated DocumentedAstronomer and science communicator who championed rigorous skepticism toward UFO claims while enthusiastically pursuing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.Chris LehtoEvidence rated DocumentedRetired USAF F-16 Lieutenant Colonel who applies combat pilot expertise and crash investigation methodology to the analysis of declassified UAP footage.George KnappEvidence rated DocumentedLas Vegas investigative journalist who broke the Bob Lazar/Area 51 story and became the leading mainstream chronicler of government UAP programs.Daniel P. SheehanEvidence rated ContestedHarvard-trained public-interest attorney (Pentagon Papers, Silkwood, the Christic Institute's Iran-Contra suit) who became the UFO field's best-known lawyer: counsel to John Mack, Steven Greer's Disclosure Project and Luis Elizondo, and founder of the New Paradigm Institute.