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Public Affairs emails with The Debrief

DoD Washington Headquarters Services · 88 pages · text from the file's own layer

This FOIA release from DoD Washington Headquarters Services collects 2020 Pentagon public affairs and Navy emails about press queries on unidentified aerial phenomena. It includes the August 14, 2020 announcement that Deputy Secretary David Norquist had approved the UAP Task Force, and follow-ups on a CBS query about a claimed F/A-18 cellphone photo of a triangular object. It also reproduces The Debrief and Vice/Motherboard articles, and internal emails on DOPSR's handling of the Navy videos and Luis Elizondo's AATIP role.

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  • p. 4 …section titled report on "Advanced Aerial Threats." In the inclusion, the committee gave an eye-opening…
  • p. 5 …The Advanced Aerial Weapons Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP…
  • p. 7 …confirmed to Politico that the DoD had studied UFOs under the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program…
  • p. 16 …the Advanced Aviation Weapons Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) for the DIA. The entirety of the report…
  • p. 18 …The purpose of AA TIP was to investigate foreign advanced aerospace weapons system applications with future…
  • p. 20 …to be highly-advanced aerospace technologies, within restricted airspace in or around the continental United States…
  • p. 32 …The purpose of AATIP was to investigate foreign advanced aerospace weapons system applications with future technology…
  • p. 41 …the Advanced Aviation Weapons Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) for the DIA. The entirety of the report…
  • p. 44 advanced aerospace weapons system applications with future technology projections over the next 40 years, and to…
  • p. 53 …section titled report on "Advanced Aerial Threats." In the inclusion, the committee gave an eye-opening…
  • p. 54 …The Advanced Aerial Weapons Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP…
  • p. 62 …confirmed to Politico that the DoD had studied UFOs under the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program…
  • p. 68 …section titled report on "Advanced Aerial Threats." In the inclusion, the committee gave an eye-opening…
  • p. 69 …The Advanced Aerial Weapons Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP…
  • p. 77 …confirmed to Politico that the DoD had studied UFOs under the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program…
  • p. 82 …Under the moniker Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program or AATIP, Elizondo directed the program until the…
  • p. 87 …In that story, the Times unveiled a secretive Pentagon UFO program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat…
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Jay tells me the photo is part of the active investigation, so it would probably be withheld from release for that reason.
Relatedly, my old boss, now retired VADM Matt Kohler (who was mentioned in the article) got called by the New York
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