AATIP
Also known as: Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, AAWSAP
A Pentagon program that studied reports of unidentified aerial phenomena with about $22 million in funding. Its existence was revealed by The New York Times in December 2017.
AATIP, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, began under the AAWSAP program of 2009. It was the first acknowledged U.S. government UAP study since Project Blue Book closed in 1969.
On December 16, 2017, The New York Times revealed the program. Its inside source was Luis Elizondo, a former Department of Defense official who says he ran AATIP and who left the department that year. The story included gun-camera footage of a 2004 Navy encounter off the California coast with an object pilots nicknamed the Tic Tac.
In April 2020 the Pentagon officially released three Navy videos, labeled FLIR, GIMBAL, and GOFAST, confirming they were genuine recordings of unresolved encounters. Follow-on offices included the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (2020) and the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, AARO (2022), now the government’s standing office for the subject.
Officials have given differing accounts of AATIP’s scope, of Elizondo’s exact role, and of when the program ended. Claims about recovered materials go beyond what the Times reported and have not been independently confirmed.
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HistoricalThe New York Times, “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program” (December 16, 2017). U.S. Department of Defense statements on AATIP and AARO.
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