Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...WTF!

[BobBalouski]

Out of the defense department’s $600 billion budget, a very well-hidden $22 million went to the Advanced Aviation Thread Identification Program, an initiative that investigates reports of “anomalous aerial vehicles,” more colloquially known as UFOs.

Below is a allegedly a short, declassified clip of American fighter pilots observing such a "vehicle":

Gimbal: The First Official UAP Footage from the USG for Public Release
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=113&v=tf1uLwUTDA0


Keep in mind this political cavet:

Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was largely responsible for securing funding for the program.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D-HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army’s air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

“Ted Stevens said, ‘I’ve been waiting to do this since I was in the Air Force,” Reid said, adding that during the meeting Stevens recounted being tailed for miles by a strange aircraft with no known origin.

Most of the money went to Bigelow Aerospace, a company run by billionaire entrepreneur and friend of Sen. Reid, Robert Bigelow. Bigelow is currently working with NASA to develop and produce expandable crafts for human space travel. He said in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview that he “absolutely convinced” that alien life is real and that extraterrestrials have visited Earth.

http://fortune.com/2017/12/18/video-navy-pilots-ufo/