Reid enlists Senators Stevens and Inouye to fund a UFO study

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Senators Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye together
Senators Ted Stevens (left) and Daniel Inouye, whom Harry Reid enlisted to fund the study Office of United States Senator Ted Stevens (R- Alaska), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Former Senate leader Harry Reid later said he asked Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye, who ran the defense appropriations subcommittee, to fund a study of aerial phenomena. He said they agreed to unpublicized money in the defense bill, and that the Pentagon put the study out to bid, which Bigelow won.

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  1. FirsthandHarry Reid on What the Government Knows About UFOs (opens in a new tab)New York Magazine (Intelligencer) / 2018-03-21

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