“This is not the world I thought I was bringing my daughters into.

“This is not the world I thought I was bringing my daughters into. Aliens are real. They’re here. And I’ve seen them.” Brent Friedman says those are the words John Harrington, Reagan’s future Secretary of Energy, spoke to him on a back porch in Virginia in 1981. Harrington had just been briefed for months in an underground facility in West Virginia.