For years now, the news has been full of Navy UFO videos and reports that the Pentagon

takes alien visitation seriously.

But it turns out the source of all this news has been neither the US military nor even

legitimate reporters, but rather an unlikely group of paranormalists with exceedingly good

press release skills.

We're pulling back the curtain today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The UFO Rogues Gallery takes over America.

In December of 2017, the New York Times ran a story that shocked America.

It was the disclosure of a $22 million program at the Pentagon called A-TIP, the Advanced

Aerial Threat Identification Program, accompanied by three short black and white video clips

from an F-18 fighter screen.

To most people, this was a seismic revelation.

But to those who have studied UFO culture for a long time, it was yet another grown-inducing

chapter in a long, long history involving the same cast of characters over many decades.

A chapter in the book of how a small number of believers in the paranormal and alien

visitation have used every tool at their disposal to persuade the American public of their viewpoint.

It's a story involving many threads, many individuals, and many groups.

And today we're going to do our best to use the Skeptical Eye to unpack and organize

it as best we can.

When the public is being successfully fooled, it's always worthwhile to pull back the

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