Congress / policymaker

Daniel Inouye

2007-09-01what this date marks is not recorded

U.S. Senator from Hawaii; joined Harry Reid and Ted Stevens in securing the $22 million congressional appropriation that funded AAWSAP in 2007. A widely circulated but uncorroborated quote about a "secret government" is often attributed to him in UFO literature.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufo". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

None of this entity's 3 connections has a source you can open. 1 was tested against a document we hold and deliberately not bound.

3 connections

ColourGovernmentCongress

→ AATIP not bound, on purpose

tested against Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I

The claim we tested

helped secure its congressional funding

What the document actually says

At the direction of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), the Defense Appropriations Acts of Fiscal Years 2008 and 2010 appropriated $22 million for the DIA ...

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 22 · read off the page footer

Why we refused it. AARO CREDITS REID AND NO ONE ELSE. Inouye is not named on this page. The claim may well be true and is carried by contemporaneous press reporting; it is not carried by this document, and a document that names one senator cannot be made to name three.
→ Harry Reid names a source we do not hold

joined him in securing the 2007 AAWSAP funding

NYT, 'Glowing Auras and Black Money,' Dec 16 2017
← Ted Stevens names a source we do not hold

fellow senator who helped secure AAWSAP funding

KQED/AP - Reid/Inouye/Stevens funding