Last year Pentagon spent as much as $22 million on a program investigating the existence of UFOs on Earth. Fans of X-files series are sure to welcome this news, yet it is not what it may seem. UFO is not only about extraterrestrial life forms. The abbreviation primarily stands for unidentified flying object. Any flying object that has not been identified. For instance, some might still take a remote control quadcopter or a weather balloon as an unidentified flying object.
As it turns out, the above-mentioned sum was allocated for investigation of flying objects made in China and Russia. Pentagon explicitly fears that the technologies developed by these two countries pose a real threat to the US national security. So, the UFO investigation program is run openly. The vast majority of the funding went to Bigelow Airspace, a US space technology startup company.
What amounts are allocated by Pentagon for research of potential aliens flying on unidentified objects? This is something that remains a secret.
