According to Cooper, he served in the US Air Force and the US Navy and was discharged in 1975. He caused a sensation in UFOlogy circles when in 1988 he claimed to have seen secret documents while in the US Navy that referred to government knowledge and involvement with extraterrestrials
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI Pentagon Contracts Revealed: Inside the Military AI Partnership Documents
Newly released FOIA documents reveal that Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI each signed contracts worth up to $200 million with the Pentagon in July 2025 to build AI tools for warfighting, surveillance, and automated military decision-making on classified networks.



