The Pentagon reportedly possesses a metal alloy that was allegedly recovered from an Unidentified Flying Object, a mysterious material that confounds scientists.

The revelation comes from the US Department of Defense's secret, US$22 Million "Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program" program that investigated reports of UFOs from 2007 through 2012. The DoD program was able to go largely undetected to the outside world and even in much of the Pentagon itself because its meager budget was a mere sliver of the US$600 Billion annual Defense Department budget of the United States.

Scientists "do not know" what the material recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena is made of, according to New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal who was interviewed on MSNBC:  "They have some material from these objects that is being studied, so that scientists can try to figure out what accounts for their amazing properties," said Mr. Blumenthal.  "It's some sort of compound they do not recognise."

Blumenthal is co-author of a report in the New York Times which details elements of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, including interviews with people who claim to have met extraterrestrials, and witness accounts of aircraft that seemed to hover or move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion.  The project also collected video of a 2014 encounter between some sort of flying object and two Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets, from the aircraft carrier Nimitz.  The object outpaced the high powered Navy fighter jets.

Blumenthal said the program never did figure out what they were dealing with:  "Research went into trying to identify their strange means of propulsion, their phenomenal aerodynamics which represent nothing on the face of this earth by any country."