In the military, a task force is put together to deal with a specific situation or problem—the situation, in this case, the anomaly and enigmatic UAP.
The newly formed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, or UAPTF, is a program in the United States Office of Naval Intelligence used to “standardize collection and reporting” on unexplained aerial vehicles’ sightings.
The program was detailed in a June 2020 hearing of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF).
The Department of the Navy, under the knowledge of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will manage the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
The Department of Defense established the UAPTF to increase its understanding of and gain insight into the characteristics and origins of UAPs.
The task force’s mission is to analyze, detect, and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.
The DOD and the military departments take unauthorized aircraft incursions into their training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each UAP report.
This includes analyses of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.
Franc Milburn of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies published this remarkably insightful assessment of the USG’s new UAP investigation.
It’s called “The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force.” He’s done a thorough job reviewing the open-source literature and is asking the right questions.
Why Develop Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, or UAPTF?
On June 24, 2020, the Intelligence Committee publicly asked the United States Intelligence Community and the United States Department of Defense to track and analyze unexplained aerial vehicles’ data.
And the task force will issue a report to the Intelligence Committee 180 days after the passage of the intelligence authorization act.
The well-known public figure Christopher Mellon, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and an advisor to the UFO-promoting company To the Stars, said, “We are talking dozens of incidents in restricted military airspace over the years.”
Marco Rubio, a lawyer and a republican politician serving as the senior United States senator from Florida, previously served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
He said that he was troubled that an adversary had achieved “some technological leap” that “allows them to conduct this sort of activity.”
Why is the Defense Department Interested in UFO/UAP Reports?
There are numerous non-extraterrestrial reasons why the Defense Department is interested in UFO/UAP reports. Below are eight reasons.
- First, identify and facilitate instrumental in new sensory technology to make sure they don’t accidentally misinterpret or overlook future UFO/UAP readings.
- Second, to determine how hackers and real enemies might deliberately induce detection of UAPs and what they can do to prevent such efforts.
- Third, to intentionally induce anomalous targets into the range of their new detection and tracking technology as a way of testing them.
- Fourth, to test adversary detection systems with deliberate pokes to identify exploitable vulnerabilities.
- Fifth, to evaluate which reports from within or near adversary nations indicate their classified military testing and operations, they need insight.
- Sixth, to determine which detections accidentally reveal highly classified operations of their own that might indicate enemy nations looking for such indications to improve their masking, misdirection, and stealth.
- Seventh, observations of UFO reports from adversary nations are indicators of leaked visual clues to military capabilities. Because to do nothing to provoke such regimes from reducing their own news media coverage of the “pseudo-UFOs.” Never announce, to the enemy, how innocent news items can be exploited.
- Eighth, domestic UFO or UAP reports may be accurate indicators of classified military activities, purposefully design camouflage and masking reports to distract and confuse foreign observers.
UAP could technically include aircraft or objects that are just unauthorized, as well as aircraft or objects that cannot immediately be identified.
Moreover, if a pilot sees something they cannot explain, but someone else explains it later, it could still fall under the definition of a UAP.
It’s difficult to judge how well-positioned the task force will be to seriously investigate UFO and UAP reports, but we must remain cautiously optimistic for now.