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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF)
The claims the writer was given for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), in the order they were given.
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In August 2020, the Pentagon resurrected the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), renaming it the UAP Task Force.
“This past August, the Pentagon resurrected AATIP. It's now called the UAP Task Force.”
Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs 2021-05-17 00:12:09.2-00:12:14.8 administrative
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U.S. service members are now encouraged to report strange aerial encounters to the UAP Task Force.
“Service members now are encouraged to report strange encounters.”
Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs 2021-05-17 00:12:15.6-00:12:19.0 administrative
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In May 2022, Charles McCullough III filed a Disclosure of Urgent Concern(s); Complaint of Reprisal on behalf of David Charles Grusch with the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community about detailed information Grusch had gathered beginning in 2019 while working for the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
“In May 2022, McCullough filed a Disclosure of Urgent Concern(s); Complaint of Reprisal on behalf of Grusch with the ICIG about detailed information that Grusch had gathered beginning in 2019 while working for the UAP Task Force.”
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin 2023-06-05 char:11134-11356 administrative
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David Charles Grusch served as the National Reconnaissance Office's representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019 to 2021.
“He served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021.”
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin 2023-06-05 char:1164-1278 administrative
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From late 2021 to July 2022, David Charles Grusch was the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's co-lead for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) analysis and its representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
“From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.”
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin 2023-06-05 char:1284-1390 administrative
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The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was established to investigate objects once called unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and now officially called unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.
“The task force was established to investigate what were once called “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs, and are now officially called “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP.”
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin 2023-06-05 char:1541-1718 administrative
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The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was led by the Department of the Navy under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
“The task force was led by the Department of the Navy under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.”
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin 2023-06-05 char:1723-1848 administrative
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The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force has since been reorganised and expanded into the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to include investigations of objects operating underwater.
“It has since been reorganized and expanded into the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to include investigations of objects operating underwater.”
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin 2023-06-05 char:1858-1994 administrative
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Karl E. Nell is a recently retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive who was the United States Army's liaison for the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with David Charles Grusch there.
“Karl E. Nell, a recently retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive who was the Army’s liaison for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with Grusch there”
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin 2023-06-05 char:3860-4029 administrative
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David Grusch helped author the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force's 2019 Security Classification Guide.
“Yes, I am familiar with the UAP Task Force 2019 Security Classification guide. I think it is fair. I did actually help author that with the Director.”
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency 2023-07-26 char:104962-105102 testimony first hand
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David Grusch testified at the 2023-07-26 House hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, identified as a Former National Reconnaissance Office Representative to the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force at the Department of Defense.
“Mr. David Grusch, Former National Reconnaissance Office Representative, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, Department of Defense, Oral Statement”
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency 2023-07-26 char:3355-3496 administrative second hand
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David Grusch was his agency's co-lead in unidentified anomalous phenomena and trans-medium object analysis, reporting to the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force and eventually to the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
“I was my agency's co-lead in unidentified anomalous phenomena and trans medium object analysis as well as reporting to the UAP Task Force—UAPTF—and eventually, once it was established, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office—AARO.”
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency 2023-07-26 char:36599-36825 administrative first hand
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David Grusch spent 4 years while with the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force taking steps to corroborate the evidence given to him and to vet the individuals who shared it.
“I have taken every step I can to corroborate this evidence over a period of 4 years while I was with the UAP Task Force and do my due diligence on the individuals sharing it.”
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency 2023-07-26 char:37573-37744 testimony first hand
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David Grusch was a member of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force from 2019 to 2021 in a National Reconnaissance Office reservist capacity within the United States Air Force.
“In the U.S. Air Force in my National Reconnaissance Office—NRO—reservist capacity, I was a member of the UAP Task Force from 2019 to 2021.”
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency 2023-07-26 char:38214-38347 administrative first hand
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In 2019 the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force Director asked David Grusch to identify all special access programs and controlled access programs needed to satisfy the task force's congressionally mandated mission, reporting directly to the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
“In 2019, the UAP Task Force Director asked me to identify all special access programs and controlled access programs, also known as SAPs and CAPs, we needed to satisfy our congressionally mandated mission and we would direct report at the time to the DEP/SecDef.”
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency 2023-07-26 char:38603-38858 testimony first hand
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David Grusch sat on the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) created by the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
“Mr. Grusch, you sat on the unidentified anomalous phenomenon task force created in the 2020 NDAA, correct? Mr. GRUSCH. Yes.”
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency 2023-07-26 char:96376-96496 testimony first hand
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At the 17 May 2022 US Congress public hearing on UAP, Mike Gallagher asked Ronald S. Moultrie and Scott W. Bray whether they were aware of any Department of Defense or DOD contract programs focused on UAP from a technological engineering perspective, and both replied they were not aware of anything beyond the Navy UAP Task Force.
“Gallagher: Are you aware of any other DOD or DOD contract programs focused on UAPs from a technological engineering perspective …? Mr. Moultrie: I am not aware of any contractual programs that are focused on any anything related to this, other than what we are doing in the Navy task force and what we are about to launch in terms of our effort. Mr. Gallagher: Same question for you, Mr. Bray. Mr. Bray: Same answer. Not aware of anything outside what we are doing in the UAP Task Force.”
In Plain Sight 2023-11-17 ch30:23527-24000 testimony first hand
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David L. Norquist, as Deputy Secretary of Defense, approved the establishment of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) in 2020-08.
“Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of the UAPTF in August 2020.”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:64123-64219 administrative second hand
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Under the cognisance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (USD(I&S)), the Department of the Navy was asked to lead the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF).
“Under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (USD(I&S)), the Department of the Navy was asked to lead the task force.”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:64225-64390 administrative second hand
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The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) was established to improve understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAP.
“It was established to improve understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAP.”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:64397-64494 administrative second hand
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The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force's (UAPTF) mission was to detect, analyse, and catalogue UAP that could potentially pose a threat to United States national security.
“The task force's mission was to detect, analyze, and catalog UAP that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:64499-64618 administrative second hand
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The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) helped standardise, destigmatise, and increase the volume of UAP reporting.
“The UAPTF helped standardize, destigmatize, and increase the volume of UAP reporting.”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:64788-64863 administrative second hand
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The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force's (UAPTF) work helped calibrate sensors to improve the quality of UAP data collected.
“Its work also helped calibrate sensors to improve the quality of data collected.”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:64874-64944 administrative second hand
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The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force's (UAPTF) methods and processes directly led to the identification of the People's Republic of China's high-altitude balloons that traversed the continental United States.
“Its methods and processes directly led to the identification of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) high altitude balloons that traversed over the continental United States.”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:64955-65124 administrative second hand
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Senate Report 116-233, accompanying the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to submit an intelligence assessment of the threat posed by UAP and to report on the progress the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) had made in understanding this threat.
“Senate Report 116-233, accompanying the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in consultation with the Secretary of Defense to submit an intelligence assessment of the threat posed by UAP and to report on the progress the UAPTF had made in understanding this threat.”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:65262-65604 administrative second hand
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The Deputy Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, directed the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (USD(I&S)) to establish the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) to succeed the United States Navy's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF).
“The Deputy Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), directed USD(I&S) to establish AOIMSG to succeed the USN's UAPTF.”
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01 char:66957-67115 administrative second hand
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The Legacy Program and its associates managed to block funding that the United States Congress had appropriated to the Pentagon's UAP Task Force.
“the powers that be, took their pushback to the next level and somehow managed to block the funding that had been appropriated to the UAP Task Force by Congress”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch31:26232-26383 testimony first hand
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The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSD(I)) is the same organisation that had previously underplayed and tried to kill the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and then the Pentagon's UAP Task Force.
“My old office, the OUSD(I), was precisely the same organization that had underplayed and tried to kill AATIP and then the UAP Task Force.”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch31:27632-27763 opinion first hand
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The interagency task force that Jay Stratton built went on to become the Pentagon's UAP Task Force.
“Once it was put together, this would go on to became the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force.”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch31:5154-5231 administrative first hand
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Luis Elizondo started working as a contractor for the United States Space Force (USSF) to help build their UAP effort and support Jay Stratton's UAP Task Force.
“Soon after that, I started working as a contractor for USSF on the UAP front and getting their unofficial help behind the scenes on my public efforts while also contributing to Jay’s UAP Task Force.”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch31:5830-6022 administrative first hand
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After a couple of years of Jay Stratton quietly building the task force, the United States Secretary of Defense announced the Pentagon's UAP Task Force and named Jay Stratton as its first director.
“After a couple of years of Jay quietly building the UAP Task Force behind the scenes, the secretary of defense announced the UAP Task Force and named Jay as its first director.”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch31:6057-6224 administrative first hand
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From the moment the Pentagon's UAP Task Force became official, the Legacy Program started quietly pushing back on Jay Stratton and the task force, creating bureaucratic hurdles.
“From the moment the UAP Task Force became official, the Legacy Program started quietly pushing back on Jay, behind the scenes, creating one bureaucratic hurdle after another for him, the task force, and everyone involved.”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch31:6381-6592 administrative first hand
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David Grusch helped contribute to the Pentagon's UAP Task Force.
“helped contribute to the UAP Task Force as well”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch32:1025-1068 administrative first hand
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The Pentagon's UAP Task Force was refused access to a broad crash retrieval programme that retrieved nonhuman-origin technical vehicles that had either landed or crashed.
“The UAP Task Force was refused access to a broad crash retrieval program, retrieving nonhuman origin technical vehicles, you know, call it spacecraft, if you will, nonhuman exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch32:1290-1513 testimony first hand
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David Grusch was the representative of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on the Pentagon's UAP Task Force.
“He was those agencies' rep on the UAP Task Force”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch32:931-974 administrative first hand
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While working with the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, David Grusch realised there was a parallel programme that had been kept secret from him despite his clearances, which astonished him.
“When you look at how he came to the realization, working with the UAP task force, that there was this parallel program that had been keep it secret from him, it blew him away. He had the, not the conceit, but he had the strong belief that he'd know about it.”
The DANGEROUS Truth About UFOs - Ross Coulthart | DEBRIEFED ep. 76 2026-02-20 01:19:17.8-01:19:40.2 testimony second hand
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The Slide Nine briefing document was prepared for a United States undersecretary of defense and consisted of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) briefing the United States Department of Defense on what had been learned about the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) phenomenon.
“we know from what's called Slide Nine, which I wrote about in my book, this briefing document that was prepared for an undersecretary of defense, which essentially was the UAP task force or ORSAP briefing the defense department about what they'd learned about the phenomenon.”
The DANGEROUS Truth About UFOs - Ross Coulthart | DEBRIEFED ep. 76 2026-02-20 01:44:41.5-01:44:58.0 testimony second hand
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Jay Stratton was in charge of the UAP Task Force for approximately 16 years.
“the best opportunity you might have would be to go to somebody like Jay Stratton who was in charge of the UAP task force for like 16 years”
Episode 73: Science vs. Secrecy 2026-06-30 00:28:29.0-00:28:37.4 administrative first hand
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Jay Stratton, while leading the UAP Task Force, encountered gatekeepers who controlled access to the legacy program.
“he ran into the, quote, gatekeepers for the legacy program.”
Episode 73: Science vs. Secrecy 2026-06-30 00:28:44.8-00:28:48.0 testimony second hand
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Jay Stratton, as head of the UAP Task Force, involved around 16 different defense contractors and intelligence units in an effort to move UAP investigation forward beyond the legacy program, but the effort was not successful.
“he got all... kinds of different defense contractors and intelligence units, all 16 or whatever, involved in trying to move the program forward beyond what the legacy program was doing, and they were not successful.”
Episode 73: Science vs. Secrecy 2026-06-30 00:36:18.1-00:36:34.1 testimony second hand
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Jesse Michels considers UAP Gerb's work the open-source equivalent of what David Grusch did at the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
“you're doing the open source version of what he did at the UAPTF, I think”
Jesse Michels, UAPGerb & Chris Ramsay - Flying Saucer Diner 2026-07-17 00:31:34.0-00:31:37.8 opinion first hand
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David Grusch was known within the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force for having a memory like a steel trap and serving as a large database of information on the subject.
“he was known as like this really like, you know, his mind was a steel trap and he was just this like, big database of like all this stuff”
Jesse Michels, UAPGerb & Chris Ramsay - Flying Saucer Diner 2026-07-17 00:31:38.5-00:31:47.6 hearsay