Harry Reid
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PersonPoliticianHarry Reid was a U.S. senator from Nevada and Senate majority leader who helped secure funding for the Pentagon program that became AAWSAP.
Harry Reid was a U.S. senator from Nevada and Senate majority leader who helped secure funding for the Pentagon program that became AAWSAP.
Harry Reid was an American Democratic politician who represented Nevada in the U.S. Senate from 1987 to 2017 and served as Senate majority leader. Raised in Searchlight, Nevada, he worked as an attorney and state official before entering Congress. His leadership career covered appropriations, intelligence, defense, and the politics surrounding Nevada’s military and aerospace installations.
Reid rose from a working-class childhood in Searchlight, Nevada, through law, state politics, the House, and five terms in the Senate. As Democratic leader he was known for procedural toughness, loyalty to Nevada, and an ability to move quiet appropriations through a divided institution. His interest in anomalous phenomena was initially handled in that same understated style—through letters, classified briefings, and budget language—before retirement allowed him to speak more openly about why he considered the subject legitimate.
Reid’s interest in UFO reports led him to work with Senators Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye on funding a Defense Intelligence Agency effort awarded to a company associated with Robert Bigelow. The program, now publicly identified as AAWSAP, studied anomalous aerospace cases and produced technical reports. Reid also supported Luis Elizondo’s later work and argued publicly that some military incidents deserved more serious investigation.
Reid is the political sponsor who turned private interest into a funded government program. He did not prove an extraterrestrial explanation, but he created institutional space for collection and research that influenced every subsequent phase of federal UAP policy. His career demonstrates how a senior appropriator can move a stigmatized subject into classified bureaucracy—and how that hidden beginning later complicates public understanding of what the program actually did.
New [article](https://unapologetic.substack.com/p/pt-2-lockheed-martin-crashed-ufo) on substack today. It's an update to an [article](https://unapologetic.substack.com/p/scientists-claim-lockheed-martin) I wrote in January 2025 about the attempted transfer of UFO tech from Lockheed Martin to AAWSAP. Many have covered the story because the recent revelations from Stratton. There has been some great original reporting from Ben Schreckinger. Unfortunately what has been missing from a lot of cove...
He’s a documented liar, so no surprise. https://t.co/yBibv2LJ4l [Quoted] Remember when @MiddleOfMayhem reported that "AAWSAP was NEVER a UFO program" The 7th UAP files release (23 Oct 2026) includes nine BAASS contractor records from the AAWSAP era (D166 to D175). They describe AAWSAP as a DIA contract to study UAP: buying UFO reports from MUFON, building a UAP database, modelling the Tic Tac and so on. Remember when he reported that UFOs were left out on purpose (NY Post YouTube, "Skinwalker...
Probed ingest of: The Pentagon's UFO Debunker Is Lying
“It is convenient that these stories and allegations always involve someone who knew it all but has died.” ~Lockheed's Chief Technology Officer Until August o [Quoted] NEW: Sean Kirkpatrick, who was the Pentagon's top UFO investigator as director of AARO, has shared new allegations about his investigations with PARADIGM. Kirkpatrick says he: *Worked with Lockheed Martin's chief technology officer to look into claims that the contractor possessed alien craft and traced the claims to "people wh...
Reading through Jay Stratton's book. Really nothing terribly new if you've read earlier books by Leslie Kean, Ross Coulthart, and Lou Elizondo. Question I have is who was in charge at AAWSAP and particularly AATIP? Lou has said he was in charge, DOD denied it, Harry Reid issued what sounded like a weak endorsement of Lou's claim, IIRC. Now, looking at Jay's book, he hardly mentions Lou. There's only a few references in the index, and one of them seems to be an error. Very odd that Lou is scar...
I built https://wherearethey.info, a network that connects the dots on UAP and NHI disclosure. The people, incidents, programs, hearings and documents of the UAP story, laid out as one map you can explore. You can pick a thread and pull it. For example start with David Fravor and you're one click from the Nimitz incident, then from the other pilots and radar operators who were there, then from the 2023 hearing where he testified under oath, then from the exact second he says it in the video....
Tons of smoke. Unfortunately, both Ryder and Reid are gone, so we can't ask. Also, Stratton said Lockheed was going to give AAWSAP a craft and Eric Davis said [Quoted] Skeptics must explain how/why Reid’s highly unusual SAP request aligns perfectly with the Stratton/Elizondo/Grusch/Lacatski/Puthoff/Davis narrative of a (Ryder-proposed) transfer of a retrieved UAP from Lockheed to AAWSAP. @michaelshermer @MiddleOfMayhem @JasonColavito @MickWest https://t.co/68SjZm1bZs https://t.co/WISmA2k6Tm
April of 2021, Senator Reid told New Yorker: “I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials.” In May of 2021, Reid told Las Vegas Sun: “I've never believed Lockheed had anything in that regard, even though a lot of people believe that - I don't.” https://t.co/UiOg29jXmJ
Clueless @JasonColavito posted that Senator Harry Reid was a "believer." Here's Reid to me: Reid: " I don’t believe the United States has material from an Uni [Quoted] Here's what happened the last time I called-in to a show to ask a Senator a question about UFOs. From Wilson/Davis, Pt. 3 On June 12th of 2019, Former Senator Harry Reid was the guest on KNPR’s “State of Nevada” with Joe Schoemann - @joedowntownlv: (JS). After my March interview with the Senator, I was disappointed in myself fo...
[Retweeted] @JasonColavito @SicCoP1 Grusch alleges he saw records outlining the proposed LM transfer; Davis spoke in detail about Ryder, mirroring Stratton’s statements, etc. etc. There is a literal (and highly unusual) request from Reid for SAP status for AAWSAP to protect the UAP Lockheed was to transfer. https://t.co/zlksFBdyyg
