21-F-0299__UAP_The_Debrief_Emails_12-2020.pdf

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Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force 
Media colleagues, 
On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial 
Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under 
Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the UAPTF. 
The Department of Defense established the UAPTF to improve its understanding of, and gain insigh…

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CHINFO Team,nand r7, 
The UAP article below (it was in my IW News Clips this morning...  (13)(6) 
--- I've added you to the daily 
distro) mentions a still photo of a UAP supposedly taken by an F/A 18 pilot using his cellphone. See the portion 
highlighted. 
That article has generated a follow-on query today from (b)(6) 
of CBS: 
"I'm told there really is a cell phone picture taken by an F-18 pilot last year of a triangular shaped UFO. It's part of a 
classified briefing, but is the cell phone picture itself clas…

agencies told The Debrief that these reports include clear photographic evidence of UAP. The reports also explicitly state that the 
Task Force is considering the possibility that these unidentified objects could, as stated by one source from the U.S. Intelligence 
Community said, be operated by "intelligences of unknown origin." 
Significantly, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general and head of RAND corporation's Space Enterprise Initiative has—for the first 
time—gone on record to discuss some of the most likely explanations for UAP. His responses were surprising. 
Briefings At The Highe…

Attendees at the meeting told The Debrief that they were provided information on two previous DoD-backed UFO programs: The 
Advanced Aerial Weapons Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program 
(AATIP). They were also briefed on "highly sensitive categories of UFO investigations." Only two days later on October 23rd, staffers 
with the Senate Select Intelligence Committee were provided the same information in a meeting on Capitol Hill. 
A former private contractor for AAWSAP and AATIP, Dr. Hal Puthoff, confirmed for The Debrief he was one of a …

"In decades with the [Intelligence Community] I've never seen anything like this," said one intelligence official. 
One defense official described the report's distribution as having gone through "normal, non-public, information sharing channels." 
Other officials who'd seen and read the report either declined to elaborate or indicated the report was distributed on various secure 
systems. One defense official indicated it was distributed on the DoD's Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet). Two 
other intelligence officials said they received the information via "NSANet" (the NSA's …

Agreeing only to speak on background, a senior member of the Intelligence Community whose responsibilities for decades involved 
underwater surveillance and reconnaissance programs told The Debrief there was validity to claims of extremely fast-moving 
underwater objects being detected by U.S. military systems. 
"On occasion, there are detections made of non-cavitational, extremely fast-moving objects within the ocean." The intelligence 
official declined to elaborate further, citing the high-levels of security classification associated with underwater reconnaissance. 
Officials who had read t…

UAP investigations, and that indeed Luis Elizondo was the custodian of the AATIP portfolio. Additionally, information obtained 
showed elements of the Defense Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office had participated in AATIP. 
Though this request was less than six months after The Pentagon's "no responsibilities" statement, spokeswoman Gough replied, 
"Please keep in mind he [Elizondo] left DoD over three years ago, and there are personnel and privacy matters involved." 
Given the recent Presidential election results and impending transfer of executive power, The Debrief reached…