For those of you X-Files fans who are still hoping to find answers to the truth, there's a team of people working for the government who have been on the job! According to The New York Times, in the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, there was $22 million spent on an Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which includes researching unidentified flying objects.

This funded research took place from 2008 to 2012 thanks to former Senator Harry Reid. The Defense Department has never acknowledged the existence of this program which investigates reports of UFOs, but it was run by a military intelligence official named Luis Elizondo... the real-life Agent Mulder.

Even though funding for the program stopped in 2012, the program is still running. The report says that "for the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.