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UAP Task Force (UAPTF)

2020

The Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, established August 2020 by Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist under the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, working with the Office of Naval Intelligence. Successor to the earlier AATIP effort and predecessor to AOIMSG. It produced the data behind the June 2021 ODNI preliminary UAP assessment.

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confirmedDavid Norquist

established it in August 2020

Source: AARO (Wikipedia); DoD UAPTF establishment, Aug 2020

confirmedAOIMSG

replaced the UAP Task Force

Source: The Black Vault / DoD AOIMSG establishment memo, Nov 2021

confirmedAATIP

successor to the earlier AATIP effort

Source: AARO (Wikipedia); ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP, Jun 2021

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