FOIA Release Shows DoD's UAP Task Force Transition

FOIA Release Shows DoD's UAP Task Force Transition — With 23 Pages Fully Withheld

A September 20, 2022 FOIA response to The Black Vault's John Greenewald, Jr. released 27 of 50 responsive pages, including a November 23, 2021 memo establishing the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group as successor to the Navy-led UAP Task Force.

Published

October 8, 2026

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Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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DoD Withholds 23 Pages on UAP Office

The September 20, What makes the two-page letter consequential is the arithmetic buried in its second paragraph: the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security located 50 pages responsive to a November 24, 2021 request, and 23 of them were withheld in their entirety. Colonel Brian C. C.

§ 552(b)(1), invoking Executive Order 13526 sections covering military plans, weapons, systems, or operations; intelligence activities, sources, or methods; and vulnerabilities or capabilities of systems, installations, infrastructures, projects, plans, or protection services relating to national security. Portions of the remaining 27 pages were additionally withheld under (b)(5), for deliberative inter- and intra-agency memoranda, and (b)(6), for personal privacy. The released remainder is what gives the withholding its shape.

It contains a November 23, 2021 memorandum from the Deputy Secretary of Defense establishing the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group as successor to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task…

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