UAP Task Force (UAPTF)
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OrgGovernment AgencyThe UAP Task Force was the 2020–2021 Navy-led Defense Department body that standardized military UAP collection and produced the first modern ODNI assessment.
The UAP Task Force was the 2020–2021 Navy-led Defense Department body that standardized military UAP collection and produced the first modern ODNI assessment.
Jay Stratton
The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was a United States defense and intelligence body formally established in August 2020 to detect, analyze, and catalogue UAP that might affect national security or flight safety. Led by the Department of the Navy under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, it built on earlier Navy reporting changes and interagency work that had developed outside broad public view.
The task force gathered reports from military operations and coordinated with intelligence agencies whose sensors or missions could contribute data. Jay Stratton served as its director, and personnel associated with the effort included analysts and consultants with prior anomalous-phenomena experience. Its best-known product was the 2021 ODNI Preliminary Assessment, which reviewed 144 reports, identified one with high confidence, and said the remaining cases lacked sufficient data for firm conclusions.
UAPTF marked a transition from episodic investigation to standardized UAP data collection. The assessment acknowledged possible flight-safety and national-security concerns while avoiding an extraterrestrial conclusion. Former participants have since described additional cases and alleged deeper findings, but those public accounts vary in sourcing and are not all contained in the official report. The task force’s classified work also limits how fully outsiders can compare later testimony with its contemporaneous record.
The organization was temporary. Its responsibilities passed through the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group and then to AARO, which received a broader all-domain and historical mandate. UAPTF’s lasting significance is institutional: it created a recognized pathway for military reporting, forced an interagency baseline assessment, and gave Congress a defined organization to oversee. Its limitations—small size, uneven reporting, fragmented data, and restricted access—also explain many of the design choices and continuing disputes surrounding its successors.
Jay Stratton Breaks His Silence: I've Seen UFOs AND Aliens
Jay Stratton, Former Director Of U.S Government’s UAP Task Force, Full Interview Segment on Special Report with Bret Baier, October 12, 2026
[Retweeted] Former UAP Task Force Director Jay Stratton tells Fox News’ Bret Baier the U.S. Govt has “craft of non-human origin” “There is an ongoing program to capture and reverse-engineer this technology… The people who’ve had this 80-year monopoly on the topic believe the secret is so intense that the American people cannot handle it.”
Jay Stratton says a nuclear-submarine operation designed to attract UAP produced an encounter on its first mission. Speaking with @BretBaier today October 12, @jaystratton, the former director of the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, described using a nuclear submarine off the U.S. East Coast alongside a P-3 aircraft equipped to collect information. According to Stratton, a UFO appeared and the mission gathered data. His September excerpts described the submarine proposal and a P-3 encounter. Tonigh...
Former UAP Task Force Director Jay Stratton tells Fox News’ Bret Baier the U.S. Govt has “craft of non-human origin” “There is an ongoing program to capture and reverse-engineer this technology… The people who’ve had this 80-year monopoly on the topic believe the secret is so intense that the American people cannot handle it.”
[Retweeted] 🚨 NEW INTERVIEW OUT NOW! 🛸 Former UAP Task Force member Lenval Logan returns! “We’ve seen better.” Logan reacts to Grusch's latest claims, describes a MASSIVE underwater object, reveals how Grusch joined the Task Force and shares a deeply unusual personal experience. Later, Matt Stevens joins us to discuss the Phenom app. 🎬 Watch the trailer below! 📺 Full interview: 👇 https://t.co/3dZoBglSF8
[Retweeted] 🚨 NEW INTERVIEW OUT NOW! 🛸 Former UAP Task Force member Lenval Logan returns! “We’ve seen better.” Logan reacts to Grusch's latest claims, describes a MASSIVE underwater object, reveals how Grusch joined the Task Force and shares a deeply unusual personal experience. Later, Matt Stevens joins us to discuss the Phenom app. 🎬 Watch the trailer below! 📺 Full interview: 👇 https://t.co/3dZoBglSF8
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 https://t.co/jtlKLDdXdZ [Quoted] 🚨 NEW INTERVIEW OUT NOW! 🛸 Former UAP Task Force member Lenval Logan returns! “We’ve seen better.” Logan reacts to Grusch's latest claims, describes a MASSIVE underwater object, reveals how Grusch joined the Task Force and shares a deeply unusual personal experience. Later, Matt Stevens joins us to discuss the Phenom app. 🎬 Watch the trailer below! 📺 Full interview: 👇 https://t.co/3dZoBglSF8
Former UAP Task Force Member: “We’ve Seen Better UAP Footage” https://t.co/1hYOTf5eU1
"I wrote the security-classification guide." ~@jaystratton (Is that guide too restrictive, and part of the reason why we're not getting to see any OMG videos? [Quoted] "[The U.S. government - DOPSR] took nothing out [my book] that was UAP related." ~Stratton 🔥🛸👽 New Stratton: “I Can Tell You A Lot More Than People Think” — Including UAP Events He’s Never Publicly Explained 👽🛸🔥 "The meetings I've been sitting in, even recently, I'm like...why are we back to the drawing board for somethin...
