IMO this isn't particularly news worthy. It's some small unit in the Army doing some minor collaboration with a questionable group of people on a pseudosceintific subject. The US military and government have a very long history of doing things like this, with zero results.
I'd just like to say this to all the super-smart skeptics on hackernews who think they are experts on just about everything including the UFO/ET topic, you're wrong, and that's okay, it's really okay. Your world is about to get very exciting soon as the smart money has already positioned its self to grab the trillion-dollar opportunities in this emerging space (no pun intended). Peter Thiel, although a certified jerk, is also one of the first VC's to educate himself on exotic ET originated metamaterials, others will follow shortly...<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-vc-firm-founders-fund-hereticon-conference-immortality-ufo-2019-10" rel="nofollow">https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-vc-firm-founders...</a>