Harry Reid

Former Senate Majority Leader from Nevada who secured $22 million in classified funding for the AAWSAP program in 2007 after being briefed on Skinwalker Ranch phenomena by Robert Bigelow. This program evolved into AATIP under Elizondo. Reid is the political godfather of the modern UAP disclosure movement — without his funding, AATIP wouldn't exist, the three Pentagon videos wouldn't have been investigated, and the 2017 NYT story wouldn't have happened. Publicly stated before his death in 2021 that the government has been hiding UAP information and that Lockheed Martin may possess recovered materials. Told the New York Times: 'I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials.'