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In 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid called his colleagues Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye to a specially secured room in the Capitol where highly classified information was discussed.

Stevens, a Republican from Alaska, and Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii, controlled funding for supersecret Pentagon operations. Reid wanted to put an idea on their radar, one that needed to be kept hush-hush not just for national security but because it was, as Reid's aides told him, kind of crazy.

Stevens, Reid later told New York Magazine, was interested because he had a UAP encounter of his own. As Reid recounted, Stevens told him: "I was in my airplane alone and off to my left was an object. I could see it. It was so close to me. I would veer up, down, sideways. Wherever I went, it was there. I was starting to get low on fuel, went and landed, and went to the air-traffic controller. I said, "Was there anybody up in the air with me?" The guy said, "I don't know what you re talking about."

This, Reid explained, was the problem with UAP: Sightings were relatively common, but pilots didn't want to report them, "because it would hurt them in their promotions and make them look like goofballs."

Ted Stevens

Politician & Lawyer

Source: Wiki

One of the longest serving U.S. Senators allegedly witnessed Foo Fighter, UFO orbs as a pilot in WWII.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1923, Stevens served in World War II before becoming a lawyer and relocating to Alaska to practice.

Stevens began a political career in Alaska during the 1950s, and was appointed to the Senate in 1968 after the death of the previous senator, represented Alaska in the U.S. senate from 1968 until 2009. Throughout his political career, he was recognized for his advocacy for Alaska's interests and his support for initiatives promoting infrastructure development and energy production.

Over the years, he established himself as a highly skilled legislator with an astute ability to navigate complex political issues. Stevens faced criticism over his ties to lobbyists as well as his involvement in a 2008 corruption scandal that shook Alaska politics. Stevens passed away in a plane crash in Alaska in 2010 at the age of 86.

UFO Interest

Stevens was also known for his interest in UFOs and related phenomena, having had a personal encounter with an unidentified object while serving as a pilot during World War II. He spoke publicly about his fascination with UFOs in 1975, calling for greater transparency from the government on the issue. He even introduced legislation that would have compelled the government to disclose any information it had on UFO sightings and other related events. Majority Leader Harry Reid convinced both Senator Stevens and Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye from Hawaii to allocate funds for a UFO program from the Pentagon's budget.

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Born: November 18, 1923
Died: August 9, 2010
Age: 86
Nationality: United States
Category: Government, Military

Senator Ted Stevens described an encounter from the time he was a US Air Force fighter pilot during World War II, as recounted by Senator Harry Reid: "I was flying and there was an object next to me. I couldn't get rid of it, I slowed up, it was there. I sped up, it was there. I would dive, it would be there. I called. Nothing on radar." (25)

Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr. (November 18, 1923 - August 9, 2010) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. He was the longest-serving Republican Senator in history at the time he left office.

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Military service

[Photo: ]Stevens while serving, 1943

After he graduated from Redondo Union High School in 1942, Stevens enrolled at Oregon State University to study engineering, attending for a semester.[20] With World War II in progress, Stevens attempted to join the Navy and serve in naval aviation, but failed the vision exam. He corrected his vision through a course of prescribed eye exercises, and in 1943 he was accepted into an Army Air Force Air Cadet program at Montana State College.[20][21]: 221 Stevens said that, after scoring near the top of his class on an aptitude test for flight training, he was transferred from the program to preflight training in Santa Ana, California, and he received his wings early in 1944.

The Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor displays a collection of Stevens's wartime photos and souvenirs in connection to his flying supplies to the Flying Tigers.

Stevens served in the China-Burma-India theater with the Fourteenth Air Force Transport Section, which supported the "Flying Tigers", from 1944 to 1945. He and other pilots in the transport section flew C-46 and C-47 transport planes, often without escort, mostly in support of Chinese units fighting the Japanese. Stevens received the Distinguished Flying Cross for flying behind enemy lines, the Air Medal, and the Yuan Hai Medal awarded by the Chinese Nationalist government. He was discharged from the Army Air Forces in March 1946.