New York Post by Tamar Lapin
Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid believes US defense contractor Lockheed Martin may have once had fragments of a crashed UFO in its possession, it was revealed Friday.
Reid, 81,Ā told The New YorkerĀ that he had never actually seen proof of the remnants ā but tried, unsuccessfully, to get approval from the Pentagon to find them.
āI was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials,āĀ the Democrat told the magazine.
āAnd I tried to get, as I recall, a classified approval by the Pentagon to have me go look at the stuff. They would not approve that,ā Reid continued. āI donāt know what all the numbers were, what kind of classification it was, but they would not give that to me.ā
His comments were part of an in-depth New Yorker story on US government investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
Earlier Friday,Ā The Post revealedĀ revealed that an ex-Pentagon official who says he ran the program probing UAPs believes the feds have been covering up their existence.
The controversial whistleblower, Luis āLueā Elizondo, said he hasnāt been able to get the Defense Department to act on what he described as a serious national security risk.
Elizondo, the former head of theĀ Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, spoke out ahead of a bombshell government report on UFOs that is set to be released before the end of June.
He said the highly anticipated report will address what UFO believers have been clamoring to discover aboutĀ Tic Tac-shaped objectsĀ the Navy saw in 2004, the strangeĀ ācubes within spheresāĀ seen by naval aviators in 2014 andĀ mysterious black trianglesĀ reported around the world.
Reid ā who onceĀ took credit for arranging $22 millionĀ in annual fundingĀ for the AATIP ā has consistently defended Elizondo, even as the whistleblower took heat for encouraging exploration of UFOs.
āMr. Elizondo has spent his career working tirelessly in the shadows on sensitive national-security matters, including investigating UAPs as the head of AATIP,ā the former Senate Majority Leader said in a recent statement. āHe performed these duties admirably.ā
