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1/9) BREAKING: Dept. of Defense release: "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

2/9) 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 insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs. The mission of the task force is to detect,

3/9) analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security."

The UAP Task Force actually has been around for awhile, operating within the Office of Naval Intelligence and under the media radar.

4/9) Its existence was publicly acknowledged in June, in the public report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) on the FY 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act.

5/9) The SSCI report, issued with bipartisan support, said the SSCI supported the efforts of the UAPTF, but complained that "this [UAP] issue has lacked attention from senior leaders."

6/9) The SSCI directed the Director of National Intelligence to prepare an unclassified report on "anomalous aerial vehicles" within 180 days of enactment. That report "may include a classified annex." Materials apparently used to brief some lawmakers are TOP SECRET.

7/9) The SSCI UAP directive has advanced with bipartisan support. SSCI Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) said on July 16, "We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises, and we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours."

8/9) SSCI ranking Democrat Sen. Mark Warner (Va.) said after receiving a classified UFO briefing 6-20-19: "One of the key takeaways I have is the military and others are taking this issue seriously, which I think in previous generations may not have been the case."

9/9) The bill to which the SSCI's UAP directive is attached has passed the Senate and is likely to go to conference committee during a post-election lame duck session. More on the legislation here:
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