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David Norquist

2020-08-04what this date marks is not recorded

Deputy Secretary of Defense (2019-2021). Established the UAP Task Force in August 2020 - the DoD official who stood up the Pentagon's first formal UAP body, mirroring what his successor Kathleen Hicks would later do with AOIMSG and AARO.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "aaro", "uap". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force 2020-08-14

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→ UAP Task Force (UAPTF) a reference; no pages of it are held

established it in August 2020

Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
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his successor as Deputy SecDef; each stood up a UAP office

DoD leadership records; AARO (Wikipedia)