This is Brian Bender, who also helped break the massive twenty seventeen UFO story.

I even asked the question in a Pentagon briefing.

Some of us reporters were brought in, and my question was, "Are you also looking to see whether there might have been secret programs in the past?" Multiple layers of secrecy that might reveal things about UFOs, crash materials, that even people in the Pentagon today might not have any idea about.

I just hope it works out.

The government is notorious for reinventing the wheel.

I've been a reporter long enough to come across a lot of stories where I'm like, "Why does this sound familiar?" Where there might have been a program, there might have been a report, there might have been something, but it was 20, 30 years ago.

It's because they tried the same damn thing 20, 30 years ago.

You know, you can't discount some of that in this topic too.