Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF)

“This past August, the Pentagon resurrected AATIP. It's now called the UAP Task Force.”

“In response to Congress' concerns, in August 2020 the DoD established a UAP Task Force (UAPTF) to develop standardized reporting requirements for UAP encounters.”

“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.”

“The task force was led by the Department of the Navy under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.”

“Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of the UAPTF in August 2020.”

“It was established to improve understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAP.”

“The task force's mission was to detect, analyze, and catalog UAP that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.”

“Service members now are encouraged to report strange encounters.”

“was largely responsible for the creation by Congress of the UAP Task Force, which later morphed into AARO, the current UFO program approved by Congress.”

“His exposure of the existence of AATIP was a major factor in the eventual creation of the UAP Task Force and later, of AARO.”

“Once it was put together, this would go on to became the Pentagon’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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“he ran into the, quote, gatekeepers for the legacy program.”

“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.”

“He served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021.”

“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.”

“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.”

“From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mr. Grusch, you sat on the unidentified anomalous phenomenon task force created in the 2020 NDAA, correct? Mr. GRUSCH. Yes.”

“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”

“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”

“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 June 2021, the UAPTF and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the congressionally mandated Preliminary Assessment on UAP, which stated that UAP reporting data are largely inconclusive, as well as a consolidation of reports across the U.S. Government is inconsistent.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mr. David Grusch, Former National Reconnaissance Office Representative, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, Department of Defense, Oral Statement”

“In a November 2021 memorandum, the Deputy Secretary of Defense directed the OUSD(I&S) to establish the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as the successor to the UAPTF to synchronize efforts across the DoD and with other Federal departments and agencies to detect, identify, and characterize objects of interest in special use airspace.”

“It has since been reorganized and expanded into the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to include investigations of objects operating underwater.”

“The UAPTF helped standardize, destigmatize, and increase the volume of UAP reporting.”

“Its work also helped calibrate sensors to improve the quality of data collected.”

“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.”

“At one point, it employed 50 full time investigators, far more than Project Blue Book or the UAP Task Force, or AARO.”