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“#Pentagon\u2019s UFO announcement is \u2018exciting,\u2019 raises \u2018controversies\u2019: expert<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The Pentagon\u2019s announcement establishing a task force to \u201cdetect, analyze and catalog\u201d unidentified aerial phenomena is a welcome addition in the now very public search for UFOs, albeit one with its own controversies, according to one expert.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support this initiative, which rightly frames the issue in terms of security,\u201d Nick Pope, a former employee and UFO investigator for Britain\u2019s Ministry of Defense, said in an email to Fox News<\/a>. \u201cWhile there\u2019ll be debate about exactly what this entails \u2014 mention of unauthorized aircraft making incursions into training ranges sounds relatively mundane \u2014 UAP [unidentified aerial phenomena] is the official term for what the media<\/a> and the public refer to as UFOs, so there\u2019s no doubt in my mind about the true nature of the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though excited about the public confirmation, Pope pointed out one major discrepancy with the Pentagon\u2019s announcement. \u201cThe Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 referred to the task force as already being in operation,\u201d Pope, who worked for the MoD from 1991 to 1994, added.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not yet clear how this new task force relates to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Pope cited \u201cformer defense officials\u201d with the group who were involved in work relating to UFOs.<\/p>\n

The AATIP was formed in 2007 at the behest of former Sen. Harry Reid, Fox News previously reported. It reportedly ceased operations in 2012, but in 2017, the New York Times reported the Department of Defense was still investigating potential episodes of unidentified flying objects.<\/p>\n

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A video grab image taken from one of three unclassified US Navy video that have been authorized for release by the US Department of Defense (DoD), shows interactions with \u2018unidentified aerial phenomena\u2019 at an undisclosed location.<\/span>EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Luis Elizondo, the former head of the AATIP, has previously said that people should pay attention to the comments the government is making about UFOs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the pilots encountered that day was able to perform in ways that defied all logic and our current understanding of aerodynamics,\u201d Elizondo wrote in a Fox News op-ed of the 2004 encounter by U.S. Navy pilots. Videos of these encounters were publicly released by the U.S. Navy in April 2020 after having circulated in the public for years.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the DoD said it hopes to \u201cimprove its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs. The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, instructed the director of national intelligence, the secretary of defense and other agency heads to compile data on \u201cunidentified aerial phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the federal government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat,\u201d lawmakers wrote in a report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Committee understands that the relevant intelligence may be sensitive; nevertheless, the Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

In July, the Times reported that a small group of government officials, including Reid, and scientists believe objects of \u201cundetermined origin\u201d have crashed to Earth and been retrieved. The publication cited Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and a consultant for the Pentagon UFO program. Davis, who now works for defense contractor Aerospace Corporation, said he gave briefings on the recovery of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Oct. 21 and Oct. 23, 2019, respectively.<\/p>\n

In April, the Pentagon officially released videos of \u201cunidentified aerial phenomena,\u201d known as \u201cFLIR1,\u201d \u201cGimbal\u201d and \u201cGoFast,\u201d previously captured by Navy aircraft. The footage had circulated in the public for years. They were originally released to the New York Times and to The Stars Academy of Arts & Science<\/a>, headed by former Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge.<\/p>\n

After the videos were released publicly, DeLonge said \u201cUFOs are real\u201d in a since-deleted tweet.<\/p>\n

The first video of the unidentified object was taken on Nov. 14, 2004, and shot by the F-18\u2019s gun camera. The second video was shot on Jan. 21, 2015, and shows another aerial vehicle with pilots commenting on how strange it is.<\/p>\n

The third video was also taken on Jan. 21, 2015, but it is unclear whether the third video was of the same object or a different one.<\/p>\n

Seven months prior, in September 2019, the U.S. Navy first acknowledged the videos contained unidentified objects, specifically using \u201cunidentified aerial phenomena\u201d terminology.<\/p>\n