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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbar.

This is the Daily.

Today, military footage of flying objects that can't be explained.

A decade of hidden funding in the government budget, a Times investigation discovers a secret

program inside the Pentagon to investigate the threat of UFOs.

It's Monday, December 18th.

I mean, you cover the Pentagon for the Times, and my sense is that it's a very secretive

organization that holds information tightly.

I assume a lot of your reporting is built around confidential sources, right?

Yeah, an enormous amount of my reporting is built on confidential sources, but usually

the tips that I get and the stories that I am chasing tend to be about airstrikes about

things that the military is doing around the world about North Korea, about Nigeria, Syria,

Iraq.

But recently, I got a tip and found myself chasing a story that took me completely in a

different direction than anything I had ever tried to do before.

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