WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Defense is establishing a radical to streamline the postulation and investigation of UFO reports crossed the government.
The DOD says the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) volition beryllium the successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
The AOIMSG volition synchronize efforts crossed the authorities to detect, place and property objects of involvement successful Special Use Airspace (SUA), according to the department.
Officials accidental the radical volition besides measure and mitigate immoderate associated threats to the information of flights and nationalist security.
“Incursions by immoderate airborne entity into our SUA airs information of formation and operations information concerns, and whitethorn airs nationalist information challenges,” wrote the DOD successful its announcement. “DOD takes reports of incursions – by immoderate airborne object, identified oregon unidentified – precise seriously, and investigates each one.”
The DOD says the determination to found this UFO radical is the effect of readying efforts to code the challenges associated with assessing unidentified aerial phenomena (UAE) occurring connected oregon adjacent DOD grooming ranges and installations.
The DOD submitted a preliminary appraisal report to Congress successful June that highlighted UAP and identified the request to marque improvements successful processes, policies, technologies, and grooming to amended the nation’s quality to recognize the unidentified objects.