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The Pentagon UAP Report
On December 16, 2017, *The New York Times* published a front-page article disclosing that a small, classified program inside the Pentagon — formally the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, informally AATIP — had been studying military encounters with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena since 2007. The article was accompanied by previously-classified U.S. Navy gun-camera footage of an oval-shaped object filmed off the coast of San Diego by an F/A-18F Super Hornet of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in November 2004 — the so-called 'Tic-Tac' footage. Over the following seven years, the U.S. Department of Defense has progressively renamed its UAP investigation office (AATIP → UAPTF → AOIMSG → AARO), held three Congressional hearings on UAP, issued one Office of the Director of National Intelligence preliminary report (June 2021), one All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Historical Record Report Volume I (March 2024), and received Senator Chuck Schumer's UAP Disclosure Act amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act in substantially diluted form. In July 2023 a former Air Force intelligence officer, David Grusch, testified under oath to the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security that the U.S. government holds 'non-human biologics' recovered from crashed craft — testimony the Pentagon has denied. The substantive evidentiary picture has not changed since 2017. What has changed is what governments are willing to say in public about it. The case file is open.
The Khashoggi Murder
At 1:14 p.m. on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, the Saudi journalist and *Washington Post* columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Arabian consulate at 4 Saadabad Caddesi in the Levent district of Istanbul. He was 59 years old. He had an appointment to collect divorce papers he needed for his upcoming marriage to his fiancée Hatice Cengiz, who waited outside in his car. He never came out. A 15-man Saudi operational team had flown into Istanbul on private jets earlier the same day on two separate flights. The team included Saudi intelligence officers, military personnel, and a forensic pathologist named Salah Mohammed al-Tubaigy who specialized in autopsies and had brought a portable bone saw. Within approximately seven minutes of Khashoggi's arrival at the consulate, he was killed. His body was dismembered. The dismembered parts were carried out of the consulate in suitcases. The body has never been recovered. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's classified assessment, completed in November 2018, concluded with 'medium-to-high confidence' that the operation had been ordered personally by Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (commonly known as MBS). The Trump administration declined to release the assessment publicly. The Biden administration released a four-page unclassified version on February 26, 2021. Saudi Arabia conducted its own closed-court trial in 2019 that convicted eight Saudi nationals; five received initial death sentences subsequently commuted to twenty-year prison terms after pardons from Khashoggi's sons. The Saudi narrative — that the operation was an unauthorized rogue action by intelligence officers acting without MBS's knowledge — has been substantially contradicted by the U.S. intelligence assessment, by the Turkish forensic and audio evidence, and by the operational logistics that would not have been possible without senior authorization. As of mid-2026, MBS is the de facto and de jure ruler of Saudi Arabia.
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