US government spent MILLIONS researching invisibility cloaks, laser-powered weapons and wormholes in top-secret programme, declassified documents reveal
- Declassified documents divulge details of 38 top secret government projects
- Includes wormholes, invisibility cloaking and high energy laser weapons
- List went to congress last year and released via a freedom of information request
- A 2017 article revealed the US pumped $22 million of government money into UFO research
Declassified papers have emerged which reveal the US government spent tax-payers money researching science fiction concepts such as traversable wormholes, invisibility cloaking and 'state of art and evolution of high energy laser weapons'.
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released the list in response to a freedom of information request.
Declassified documents have now been made public and they divulge the remarkable details of 38 secret government funded projects.
A New York Times articles from 2017 exposed the 'Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program' as a secret $22 million 'black money' research venture into UFOs and other sci-fi lunacies.
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Declassified papers have emerged which reveal the US government spent tax-payers money researching science fiction concepts such as traversable wormholes, invisibility cloaking and 'state of art and evolution of high energy laser weapons' (stock)
Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, made the request for information.
The projects were originally classified and sent to congress last year.
Research endeavour number eight, titled 'Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy,' was led by Eric Davis of EarthTech International Inc,
It describes itself as a facility 'exploring the forefront reaches of science and engineering'.
'I think anyone who looks at these titles will scratch their heads and wonder what on earth the Defense Intelligence Agency was thinking,' Mr Aftergood told Motherboard.
Declassified documents have now been made public and they divulge the remarkable details of 38 top secret government funded projects
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) release the list in response to a freedom of information request. The projects were originally classified and sent to congress last year
A New York Times articles from 2017 exposed the Advanced Aerospace Threat program as a secret $22 million 'black money' research venture into UFOs and other sci-fi lunacies
'These are the kinds of topics you pursue when you have more money than you know what to do with.'
'I loved science fiction when I was younger. Today I love good government. So I was not especially amused.'
A New York Times articles from 2017 exposed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program which, it was claimed, was bankrolled by 'black money' research into UFOs to make it untraceable.
This money, it was discovered, went through the Senate majority Democrat leader Harry Reid to his friend and conspiracy theorist Robert Bigelow.
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