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This is a statement for the congressional record by George Knapp, chief investigative reporter for KLAS TV in Las Vegas, submitted to Rep. Burchett and his committee; the text gives no date. Knapp describes his UFO reporting since 1987, his work with Senator Harry Reid and Robert Bigelow's NIDS, and Russian military UFO studies he learned about in Moscow in 1993. He says the $22 million secured by Reid funded AAWSAP, a DIA program, rather than AATIP. He adds that AAWSAP's reports, including one on the 2004 Tic Tac case, have never been made public.
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pressing the issue, seeking access to the exotic materials, he was met with harsh rebukes. The door, in essence, was slammed in his face. And powerful interests began to apply pressure to end AAWSAP. It lasted a mere 27 months before the plug was pulled, instead of a five year operation as planned by DIA. AAWSAP investigated a wider range of phenomena than mystery craft seen in the sky. Some of the encounters reported by intelligence operatives were downright weird. AAWSAP personnel suspected that the sighting of weird creatures and bizarre phenomena in the proximity of UFO activity might be some sort of unintentional side effect of a technology that is seemingly beyond anything we currently possess. The overall directive guiding the study was that they follow the evidence, no matter where it lead, in order to gain an understanding of the big picture and not to limit the investigation to lights in the sky or fleeting glimpses on radar or other sensors. Had AAWSAP: been allowed to continue, our country might have some answers by now. It is my honor to bring this information forward to Congress and to clarify some of the misinformation that has been widely circulated. After AAWSAP ended, AATIP was created from its ashes. Lue Elizondo was able to keep the investigation going for a few years until his frustration with a lack of interest on the part of DOD higher ups became too much to bear. His exposure of the existence of AATIP was a major factor in the eventual creation of the UAP Task Force and later, of AARO. The world still has very limited understanding of the important work done for DIA in AAWSAP. The public has seen very little of the excellent work done by the Bigelow team. Hopefully Congress can start asking questions about these and other investigations undertaken into these perplexing issues. We have a right to know. George Knapp American Investigative Reporter
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