[UPDATED: November 24] Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick has announced that he is retiring from his position as Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in December 2023, 18 months after taking the position. Although Kirkpatrick’s departure was originally rumored to be due to numerous complaints made by potential UAP whistleblowersread more
The Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) has received a significant extension to its powers through the recently-passed Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (IAA), mandating that the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Secretary of Defense require the agencies and departments under their respective umbrellas to provide bothread more
It turns out that reports of the 2012 demise of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) had been greatly exaggerated by the Pentagon, according to an Intelligence Authorization Act introduced into the Senate last month. This “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force”—as Bill S. 3905 calls it—was instead renamed andread more