Government / Military

David Norquist

2020

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.

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confirmedUAP Task Force (UAPTF)

established it in August 2020

Source: AARO (Wikipedia); DoD UAPTF establishment, Aug 2020

confirmedKathleen Hicks

his successor as Deputy SecDef; each stood up a UAP office

Source: DoD leadership records; AARO (Wikipedia)

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