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In an exclusive feature for The Debrief, U.S. military and intelligence officials, as well as Pentagon emails, offer an
unprecedented glimpse behind the scenes of what's currently going on with The Pentagon's investigation into UFOs, or as they
term them, "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (UAP).
For the last two years, the Department of Defense's newly revamped "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force" (or UAPTF)
has been busy briefing lawmakers, Intelligence Community stakeholders, and the highest levels of the U.S. military on
encounters with what they say are mysterious airborne objects that defy conventional explanations.
Along with classified briefings, multiple senior U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the matter say two classified intelligence
reports on UAP have been widely distributed to the U.S. Intelligence Community. Numerous sources from various government
agencies told The Debrief that these reports include clear photographic evidence of UAP. The reports also explicitly state that
the Task Force is considering the possibility that these unidentified objects could, as stated by one source from the U.S.
Intelligence Community said, be operated by "intelligences of unknown origin."
Significantly, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general and head of RAND corporation's Space Enterprise Initiative has—for
the first time—gone on record to discuss some of the most likely explanations for UAP. His responses were surprising.
BRIEFINGS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS
In June, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's FY2021 Intelligence Authorization Act contained an intriguing section titled
report on "Advanced Aerial Threats." In the inclusion, the committee gave an eye-opening official hint (in recent history) the
government takes UFOs seriously by offering its support for the "efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at
the Office of Naval Intelligence." The Intelligence Committee additionally requested an unclassified report detailing the
analysis of "UAP" or "Anomalous Aerial Vehicles."
Though already acknowledged by the Intelligence Committee, in mid-August, the Pentagon formally acknowledged they had
established a task force looking into UAP. In a press announcement, the Secretary of Defense's Office stated , "the UAPTF's mission will be to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national
security." According to the release, authority for the Task Force was approved by the DoD's chief operating officer, Deputy
Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist.
The summer news of the establishment of the UAPTF seemingly suggests—for the first time since the shuttering of Project
Blue Book (the Air Force's official investigations into UFOs) in 1969—that the Pentagon is now taking the subject of UFOs
seriously.
However, an internal email obtained by The Debrief shows that almost one year before the DoD's announcement, the highest
levels of the U.S. military were already being briefed on UAP.
The email, obtained via Freedom of Information Act request, shows an October 16th, 2019 exchange between then Vice Chief
of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert Burke, and current Vice Chief of Staff for the Air Force General Stephen "Steve" Wilson.
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