Section C · Formal political actors · 1939–2021

Harry Reid

U.S. Senate Majority Leader (D-NV, 2007–2015) + Senator (1987–2017)

United States Congress · Public domain

Biography

The foundational political actor of the modern disclosure cycle. In 2007, together with senators Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye, he arranged the funding (~$22 million) for AAWSAP, the DIA program run through Robert Bigelow's company (BAASS) that investigated the phenomenon and the Skinwalker Ranch. Without that budgetary maneuver there would have been no AATIP, no 2017 leaks and little of the institutional apparatus the corpus documents. He maintained until his death that the topic deserved serious study.

Why they're here · 2 pieces

2007
Financiamiento del AAWSAP (DIA/BAASS)
Secured the ~$22M earmark that created the program
2021
Advocacy público por el estudio del fenómeno
Maintained until his death that the subject deserved scientific study

Sources

The New York Times — 'Glowing Auras and Black Money' (dic 2017) — Reid's role in funding AATIP/AAWSAP.

Associated cases (1)

Skinwalker Ranch · AAWSAP and field experiments· 2008–10

U.S. DoD federal program (~USD 22M, 2008–2010), requested by Senator Harry Reid, contracted to the DIA and executed by Robert Bigelow's BAASS from the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. It produced 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs) on exotic physics and biological effects. The first formally documented U.S. federal program after Project Blue Book — with contracts, paid receipts and testimony under declaration — and the direct precursor to AATIP (Elizondo) and the disclosure wave that culminates in AARO and the 2023–2025 congressional hearings. The case also folds in the three instrumented-measurement campaigns at the property —NIDS (1996–2004), BAASS and Brandon Fugal's televised team— and their results, of far lower evidential quality than the program's paperwork.

2008–10A60%

Synthesized bio from the UAP disclosure ecosystem — categorized by epistemological section (A-E).