Case file · Government program
UAP Task Force
A Navy-led Pentagon task force, approved on 4 August 2020, to detect, analyse and catalogue UAP that might threaten national security.
2020 CE · 38.87, -77.06 · status: official
The account
Overseen by the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence with the Office of Naval Intelligence, it was directed by Brennan McKernan. It produced the June 2021 ODNI preliminary assessment and confirmed the authenticity of the 2019 'pyramid' and 'Omaha sphere' Navy videos.
The sceptical view
Independent analysts attributed the 'pyramids' to an optical effect (bokeh) of out-of-focus light from aircraft.
Connections in the atlas
- Japan's SDF UFO-encounter orders
- Marco Rubio: Wrote into the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act a require
- ODNI Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
- ▶ The government UFO files
- AOIMSG
- Luis Elizondo: Told the New York Post that the government could release UAP
- Navy updates its UAP reporting guidance
- USS Russell 'pyramids' & USS Omaha 'sphere' (confirmed 2021)
- ODNI Preliminary Assessment
- AARO established