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the unidentified aerial phenomena task

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force

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this is a new government ufo program or

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maybe it's not all that new or maybe it

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doesn't exist at all

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i'm jason and today we're taking a quick

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look at the recently revealed uap task

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force

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related to ufos back in may of 2020

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when researcher john greenwald brought

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attention to statements obtained by

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writer roger glassell

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from department of defense spokesperson

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susan gao who stated

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the investigation of uap sightings by

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the multi-agency task force

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is ongoing multi-agency meaning the dod

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in the u.s navy

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that was really the first realization of

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a current ufo task force

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then we got a name to go along with this

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mysterious task force

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a draft of the intelligence

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authorization act for fiscal year 2021

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was submitted by senator marco rubio on

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june 17th on behalf of the senate select

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committee on intelligence

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within the committee comments was a

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section titled advanced aerial threats

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and this essentially detailed the

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request for a report to be assembled to

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provide a summary of the current ufo

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situation

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by the director of national intelligence

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in consultation with the secretary of

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defense and other relevant parties

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and that information is supposed to come

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from a few different sources

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including the unidentified aerial

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phenomenon task force

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cool we have evidence that there's

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something called the uap task force

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but like most things with ufos

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especially things related to ufos and

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the government

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the information we have about this task

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force is limited confusing

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and a bit wonky first we don't really

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know if the uip task force

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is actually a thing yet the comments in

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the intelligence authorization act state

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that the committee supports the efforts

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of the unidentified aerial phenomenon

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task force

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the report being requested specifically

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asks for a detailed analysis of

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unidentified aerial phenomena data and

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intelligence reporting

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collected or held by the unidentified

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aerial phenomena task force

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it's kind of hard to support efforts of

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something that doesn't exist yet

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and there wouldn't be any data to

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collect from a group that hasn't started

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collecting data yet

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an article published in the new york

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times on july 23 2020

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also makes it sound like the uap task

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force is something that already exists

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the article reports that the uap task

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force is the continuation

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of the pentagon's previously revealed

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ufo program

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the advanced aerospace threat

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identification program or atip

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which reportedly ended in 2012 and the

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time says that the program never lapsed

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the article even states that luis

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elizondo atip's former head

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confirmed that the new task force

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evolved from the advanced aerospace

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program so here we have more indications

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that the uap

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task force already exists and has

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potentially

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for years luis elizondo currently serves

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as the director of government programs

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and services at to the stars academy of

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arts and science or ttsa and

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ttsa issued a press release back on june

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24th

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stating that the senate select committee

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on intelligence introduced a bill for

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2021

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that includes an official public request

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for a uap task force

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um this makes it sound like the uap task

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force

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doesn't exist yet ttsa restated this on

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an episode of the company's podcast

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again calling the intelligence

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authorization act for 2021

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a public request for a uap task force

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confused yet i am it gets better

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or maybe worse pentagon spokesperson

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susan gow issued a statement to popular

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mechanics and other journalists stating

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that the department of defense

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is creating a task force to gain

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knowledge and insight

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into the nature and origin of uaps as

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well as their operations capabilities

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performance and or signatures

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this clearly and plainly states that a

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uap task force is being created

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it doesn't exist yet but we gain some

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additional details from this statement

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from susan gallo

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she added that the mission of the task

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force will be to detect analyze catalog

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consolidate and exploit non-traditional

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aerospace vehicles slash uaps

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posing an operational threat to u.s

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national security and avoid strategic

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surprise

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so we now know the mission of this task

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force but again

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by saying what the mission of the task

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force will be

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she's demonstrating that the task force

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isn't a thing yet but then what was she

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talking about back in may when she said

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the investigation of uap sightings by

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the multi-agency task force is ongoing

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is that a different task force than the

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one allegedly being assembled

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what is the new york times and the

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intelligence authorization act for

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fiscal year 2021

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indicate that the uap task force is

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already operating

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yet ttsa seems confident that its

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formation is just now being requested

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confusing and it's not really surprising

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at this point

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the government and the military have

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demonstrated time and time again

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that the one thing they're really good

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at is creating confusion

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and what's up with the name even if this

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thing exists

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we don't even know what the official

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name is the only time we've seen it in

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writing

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is the intelligence authorization act

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for fiscal year 2021

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in that it's mentioned twice first it's

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written as the unidentified aerial

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phenomenon task force

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and then it's written as the

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unidentified aerial phenomena

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task force and susan gal's comments are

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no help here

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she conveniently avoid using a specific

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name for the task force

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she simply refers to it as a task force

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regardless of its name

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or whether it's something active or

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currently in the works

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its existence or future existence

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demonstrates that at least on some level

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and to a certain degree

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the government continues to have an

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active interest in ufos

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including data collection and data

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sharing

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that's a good thing that's a really good

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thing

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but time will tell if the public

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benefits from any of that

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but hopefully we'll get to see the

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fruits of the uap task force's data