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Public Affairs emails with The Debrief

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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. 1 …Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The Department of…
  • p. 3 …Vehicles — The Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force The Debrief, 2 December 2020... by Tim…
  • p. 4 …photographic evidence of UAP. The reports also explicitly state that the Task Force is considering the…
  • p. 6 …All sources interviewed by The Debrief confirmed that the Task Force issued an updated second UAP…
  • p. 22 …Additionally, the UAP Task Force is now being managed in a Navy billet out of OUSDI…
  • p. 24 …portion of UAP information to be made public by the UAP Task Force? Will the UAPTF…
  • p. 34 …After CNN's recent article hinting that a new press release regarding the UAP Task Force…
  • p. 53 …photographic evidence of UAP. The reports also explicitly state that the Task Force is considering the…
  • p. 58 …All sources interviewed by The Debrief confirmed that the Task Force issued an updated second UAP…
  • p. 60 …The three officials we spoke with said the report suggested the UAP Task Force appears to…
  • p. 66 …Can Norquist comment on creation of UFO task force? (b)(6) (b)(6) use of classified…
  • p. 68 Caution-https://www.thedebrief.org/fast-movers-and-transmedium-vehicles-the-pentagons-uap-task- force/?fbclid…
  • p. 73 …All sources interviewed by The Debrief confirmed that the Task Force issued an updated second UAP…
  • p. 75 …The three officials we spoke with said the report suggested the UAP Task Force appears to…
  • p. 81 …Can Norquisf comment on creation of UFO task force? (b)(6) (b)(6) USN use of…
  • p. 82 …USA) Categories: UAP AATIP Elizondo UFO MJ's article: Pentagon Announces Task Force to Study UFOs…
  • p. 83 …Rather than establishing a new program, the ongoing and existing UAP Task Force's authority will…
  • p. 88 …Publicly, the Department of Defence established a new UAP Task Force on August 4th, 2020 to…
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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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