In 2017, the US's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), and the related Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program (AAWSAP) were made public for the first time following an investigation by the New York Times . The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The programs, funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), were pretty out-there. Operating between 2007 and 2012, AATIP investigated unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs), while AAWSAP arguably had an even weirder job. According to documents released after Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests , the program looked at everything from warp drives to manipulating extra dimensions , despite no experimental evidence that any of these thing

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