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Office of the Director of National Intelligence: 576UAP0003

Office of the Director of National Intelligence. · 2023 · 9 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Preliminary Assessment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, dated 25 June 2021 and prepared for congressional committees under Senate Report 116-233. It covers 144 US government reports from 2004 to 2021. Only one was explained with high confidence, as a deflating balloon. The report finds that UAP pose a flight safety issue and possibly a national security challenge. It proposes five explanatory categories and recommends standardized reporting, expanded collection and more research investment.

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  • p. 2 …Government (USG) personnel if and when they encounter UAP, so as to enhance the Intelligence Community…
  • p. 3 …airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or U.S. industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and…
  • p. 4 …The Air Force subsequently adopted that mechanism in November 2020, but it remains limited to USG…
  • p. 5 …airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall…
  • p. 6 …military facilities or by aircraft carrying the USG’s most advanced sensor systems. EXPLAINING UAP WILL…
  • p. 9 …the SECDEF and other relevant heads of USG Agencies, is to submit an intelligence assessment of…
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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Preliminary Assessment:
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
25 June 2021

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