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UAP Task Force (UAPTF)

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

The Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, established August 2020 by Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist under the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, working with the Office of Naval Intelligence. Successor to the earlier AATIP effort and predecessor to AOIMSG. It produced the data behind the June 2021 ODNI preliminary UAP assessment.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "unidentified aerial phenomen", "uaptf", "aatip", "uap", "aerial phenomen". 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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  • ← David Norquist a reference; no pages of it are held
    established it in August 2020
    Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
  • ← AOIMSG names a source we do not hold
    replaced the UAP Task Force
    The Black Vault / DoD AOIMSG establishment memo, Nov 2021
  • → AATIP names a source we do not hold
    successor to the earlier AATIP effort
    AARO (Wikipedia); ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP, Jun 2021