The Pentagon’s inspector general is evaluating how the Pentagon has responded to unidentified aerial phenomena, including unidentified flying objects UFOs.
In a newly released memorandum, the watchdog said it plans to begin the probe next month.
“We may revise the objective as the evaluation proceeds, and we will consider suggestions from management for additional or revised objectives,” he added.
The report should include “detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by” various intelligence methods, such as geospatial intelligence, and “a detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace,” according to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is overseeing the report’s production.
The task force was established last year. The Pentagon said it was established “to improve 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,” it added at the time.
John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence, said the report would detail more information than has been released before.
“Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engages in actions that are difficult to explain. Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom,” he added.
The new evaluation will be performed at the offices of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, as well as a slew of other offices. Each top official was told to provide the inspector general’s office with a point of contact for the evaluation within 5 days of the memo, which was disseminated on Monday.
The Pentagon declined to comment on the memo.