It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Wait, it’s a UFO? Okay, it’s not a UFO but it is a unit that has been officially and publicly shared that was built by the Department of Defense to investigate “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or what we know colloquially as unidentified foreign objects, a.k.a. UFOs.
The unit has been named Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force or UAPTF, which will “improve [the Department of Defense’s] understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs.”
The Department of Defense actually released a statement on August 14, 2020, which read “The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.”
While the task force doesn’t claim that these UAPs or UFOs prove the existence of tiny green aliens floating around in the atmosphere, the focus is meant to be more about observing the possibility of other countries violating air space that they aren’t meant to be in.
The statement also shared, “The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report.”
“This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing,” it added.
But in perfect 2020 fashion, the year has also proven to be a doozy for the Pentagon and UFOs. The August 14 statement had come just months after the Department of Defense leaked three other videos from 2004 and 2015, showing Navy pilots coming into contact with UAPs.
In a New York Times article, one of the pilots that encountered the UAPs described them to be ‘oblong-shaped and accelerating,’ while saying that they were “like nothing I’ve ever seen.” Supposedly, it’s been years since the Pentagon first began monitoring aircrafts like these, even capturing the videos of the pilots as they encountered them.
It was actually back in December of 2017 when the New York times released an article about the Pentagon’s “Mysterious U.F.O. Program,” otherwise known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which was said to have the same task as the current program.
While the report claimed that the program had ended back in 2012 because the funding had stopped, it was later on reported that the program was continued via the Office of Naval Intelligence. This is when it was renamed it the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.
It also seems fitting that the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, has shown interest in extraterrestrial life and their possible existence. A video was even produced during his June campaign where he’s talking to his son, Donald Trump Jr., and the president was asked, “before you leave office, will you let us know if there’s aliens?”
His son reportedly said, “I want to know what’s going on. Would you ever open up Roswell and let us know what’s going on there?”
Donald Jr. was supposedly referring to the highly secretive Area 51 site, which is a popular military base in Nevada that’s been the center of conspiracies. One such conspiracy was about a UFO crashing in Roswell, Nevada back in 1947, where the spacecraft and all its inhabitants were brought to Area 51 to be observed and studied.
Trump told his son, “I won’t talk to you about what I know about it but it’s very interesting. But Roswell is a very interesting place with a lot of people that would like to know what’s going on.” Meanwhile, Roswell is a city within Chaves County, New Mexico, which is open to the public, whereas Area 51 is said to still be highly restricted.
Although the Department of Defense released a statement about their UAPTF program, it doesn’t actually say anything about having to do with actual spacecrafts or the little extraterrestrials that would be flying them because, why let the secret out now?
If you want to see these UAPs or UFOs, if you prefer to call them that, for yourself, then check out the video below.
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