Congress / policymaker

Harry Reid

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

Former Senate Majority Leader (D-NV). Sponsored the classified AAWSAP/AATIP funding from 2007; longtime friend of Robert Bigelow.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "aatip". 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.

3 of 11 connections resolve to a document you can open. 1 carries no citation at all.

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Documents behind a connection

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01

Also named in documents we hold

This entity's name appears in the 2 documents below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

Hearing to Receive Testimony on the Mission, Activities, Oversight, and Budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office - stenographic transcript

named on a page we have read · p. 2

…in motion by the late long-serving Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid more than a decade ago.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume Ialready cited above

named on a page we have read · p. 22

At the direction of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), the Defense Appropriations Acts of Fiscal Years 200…

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

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sponsored funding

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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 to assess long-term and over-the-horizon foreign advanced aerospace threats to the United States. ... DIA established AAWSAP in 2009, which was also known AATIP.

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
rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from

Caveat THE SAME PAGE SAYS THE PROGRAMME THIS LINK NAMES WAS NEVER A PROGRAMME. In a bracketed note: "Unlike AAWSAP, AATIP was never an official DoD program." What Reid directed money to was AAWSAP; AATIP is a name that was used for it, and later used by people running no programme at all. The funding claim is sourced; the entity it points at is, in the Department's own words, not an official one.
→ KONA BLUE

same document as the row above

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asked that the PSAP be established

The document says

As demonstrated by the proposal package and by statements from the originator, Senators Lieberman and Reid asked that the PSAP be established with the promise of additional funding.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 35 · read off the page footer; the printed number matches the PDF page on every page held from this report
rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from

Caveat A NAMED POLITICIAN, AARO'S ACCOUNT, AND NOTHING ELSE BEHIND IT. Read what the sentence rests on in its own words: "As demonstrated by the proposal package and by statements from the originator". This project holds neither the proposal package nor those statements, and the report does not name the originator. Reid is not quoted here and nothing in this corpus carries any response from him to the characterisation. Guardrail 4 applies with full force: AARO is a party to this history, not a neutral narrator of it, which is why the claim text says "in AARO's account" rather than stating it flat. AND THE SOURCE NAMES TWO SENATORS, NOT ONE - "Senators Lieberman and Reid". Joseph Lieberman has no node on this map, so the drawn connection shows one man where the document shows two. That is an absence in this map, not a distinction the source draws.
→ William J. Lynn III

same document as the row above

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wrote to him on 24 June 2009

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On 24 June 2009, Senator Reid sent a letter to then Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III requesting that AAWSAP/AATIP be made a DoD Special Access Program.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 23 · read off the page footer; the printed number matches the PDF page on every page held from this report
rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from

Caveat THE SOURCE SAYS "SENATOR REID", NOT "HARRY REID", and this map does not treat a surname as an identity. The identification rests on the same report one page earlier: printed 22 reads "At the direction of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)", in the same section, about the same programme, in the same year. That is a check a reader can make without leaving the document. AND IT IS STILL THE DEPARTMENT DESCRIBING ITSELF. Guardrail 4 holds that AARO is a party to this history rather than a neutral narrator of it. This paragraph is the best-evidenced thing in the report - a dated letter, three named officials, and an endnote citing a memorandum - but the letter and the memorandum are not held here, and nothing in this corpus carries any of the three men's own account of the exchange. The letter itself is not held by this project; what is held is AARO's sentence about it.
→ Robert Bigelow names a source we do not hold

longtime friend

NYT, Dec 16 2017
→ James Lacatski names a source we do not hold

sponsored his program

NYT, 'Glowing Auras and Black Money,' Dec 16 2017; Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
← George Knapp names a source we do not hold

published his letter

George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023
← Daniel Inouye 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

joined him in securing the 2007 AAWSAP funding

NYT, 'Glowing Auras and Black Money,' Dec 16 2017
← Soviet/Russian UFO Study names a source we do not hold

the Russia findings, relayed by Knapp, made a lasting impression on Reid and fed into the later AAWSAP program

George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023
← TD Barnes names a source we do not hold

knew Reid personally as Searchlight NV neighbors; calls him the driver of the modern UAP push

TD Barnes interview (Danny Jones podcast, 2026)
← David Grusch nothing behind it

met him in Las Vegas, spring 2021; says Reid confirmed knowledge of retrieved material