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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. 3 …taken by an F/A 18 pilot using his cellphone. See the portion highlighted. That article…
  • p. 8 …However, what new information has come to light about the government's UAP investigations provides us…
  • p. 9 …Eugene "Gene" Poteat both suggested radar detections by the Navy of extreme aerial maneuvers sounded suspiciously…
  • p. 18 …Under the definition being used, could the term "foreign" be used to describe UAP encounters or…
  • p. 44 …Under the definition being used, could the term "foreign" be used to describe UAP encounters or…
  • p. 50 …Here's what we've used previously in response to Qs about Congressional engagement: Navy officials…
  • p. 64 …However, what new information has come to light about the government's UAP investigations provides us…
  • p. 79 …However, what new information has come to light about the government's UAP investigations provides us…
  • p. 83 …multi-agency task force" led by the Navy and under the cognizance of the Office of…
  • p. 85 …es me regarding the Navy investigations, and that the DoD investigation had only looked at whether…
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Hi (b)(6)
Please excuse me being somewhat mischievous, but today marks the one year anniversary of my question about
AATIP and the Drake Equation (see below).
You told me on February 21 - following questions raised as a result of Tim McMillan's February 14 article in
Popular Mechanics - that the response to my question would be incorporated into a more general updated
statement on the role of AATIP/AAWSAP.
Where do things stand on that statement, please?
Best wishes,
Nick
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I have a question that follows from what I believe is your most recent (hopefully accurately-quoted by me!)
position statement on the AATIP/AAWSAP role:
Neither AATIP nor AAWSAP were UAP related. The purpose of AATIP was to investigate foreign advanced
aerospace weapons system applications with future technology projections over the next 40 years, and to create
a center of expertise on advanced aerospace technologies."
My question is this: The 15th of the 38 technical reports produced under the AAWSAP contract vehicle is An
Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation, by Dr. Claudio Maccone. Given that the Statistical Drake
Equation is a probabilistic argument, the sole purpose of which is to estimate the number of communicable
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