Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

I think that there are people inside the government, inside the intelligence community and the Defense Department who are trying to slow disclosure as much as possible, even though the president, President Trump, has quite laudably pledged to be full and open on disclosure.

So with two years left in the president's administration, what do we know? So we know that the AATIP, the various investigations that took place by the Defence Department, particularly the Defence Intelligence Agency, that were exposed by the New York Times 2017 reporting, they all occurred before Donald Trump's presidency.

Now, their emergence during his administration doesn't mean he ordered their disclosure.

Arrow, that's the Pentagon's UFO investigation office, its historical review says, places those programs within a much longer history of government investigations.

I think that there are people inside the government, inside the intelligence community and the Defense Department who are trying to slow disclosure as much as possible, even though the president, President Trump, has quite laudably pledged to be full and open on disclosure.

So with two years left in the president's administration, what do we know? So we know that the AATIP, the various investigations that took place by the Defence Department, particularly the Defence Intelligence Agency, that were exposed by the New York Times 2017 reporting, they all occurred before Donald Trump's presidency.

Now, their emergence during his administration doesn't mean he ordered their disclosure.

Arrow, that's the Pentagon's UFO investigation office, its historical review says, places those programs within a much longer history of government investigations.

In December 2017, reporting by the New York Times and other journalists brought renewed attention to a Pentagon program associated with the investigation of unusual aerial encounters.

The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, commonly known as AATIP, became central to a new wave of public interest in government UFO research.

Around the same period, videos recorded by American military systems began attracting enormous attention.

Some of the most famous recordings became known as FLIR-1, Gimbal and Go Fast.

And I think one of the interesting things is the way that A-Tip is described does create some...

Not necessarily conflict, but a bit of confusion around some of the ways that Elizondo described his role in AATIP.

Stratton seems much more centrally involved than was Elizondo, though you couldn't really say that that was the picture that was being described a couple years ago when Elizondo was making the rounds.

But nevertheless, over time, because Stratton is more soft-spoken and he's more of a nose to the grindstone, I'm going to do the research, I'm going to keep at this, I'm going to do the legwork to build rapport, to try to create this all-of-government kind of approach here.

There are some more details and we're able to put together, okay, this person talked to this person.

This happened before this thing happened.

We understand now better how AATIP was part of OSAP, how part of that was just a front, a name that was done to... try to dissuade people who wanted to shut this down because they thought it was crazy or because they thought it was demons, both of which they had to deal with.

Why they played fast and loose with some of those names and the terminology.

But the thing is, yes, the legacy program is a real thing.

Luis Elizondo, who was head of ATIP, talks about it.

He says, you know, this stuff is real, okay? It's power and control, controlling the flow of information and technology.

And as you say, back then, everyone just said, oh, oh, it's that.