Pentagon Watchdog Finds DoD Lacked Coordinated UAP Strategy

Pentagon Watchdog Finds DoD Lacked Coordinated UAP Strategy From Project Sign to AARO

The DoD has no overarching UAP policy and, as a result, it lacks assurance that national security and flight safety threats to the United States from UAP have been identified and mitigated.

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September 18, 2026

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DoD Inspector General Faults Uncoordinated UAP Approach

The unclassified summary Defense never assembled a comprehensive, coordinated approach for detecting, reporting, collecting, analyzing, and identifying unidentified anomalous phenomena. S. Government subject matter experts.

What the DoD Office of Inspector General found was not a single failed program but a structural pattern. The DoD has not used a coordinated approach to UAP; DoD Components largely excluded geographic combatant commands from developing UAP policies and procedures; and Components built varying processes to collect, analyze, and identify incidents. The DoD has not issued a comprehensive UAP response plan identifying roles, responsibilities, requirements, and coordination procedures, leaving response efforts uncoordinated and concentrated within each Military Department.

Officials from the Military Services and Military Department Counterintelligence Organizations told evaluators they had been waiting for DoD-wide guidance before writing their own. S. national security.

A classified version formed the basis of this summary, and its additional observations and findings are not included here.

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