--- title: "The Pentagon’s UFO Task Force Is Finally Ready to Report Findings" description: "The Pentagon has announced that their UFO task force unit will make some of its findings available to the public in a matter of months." date: "2020-07-24" modified: "2020-07-30" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-ufo-task-force-ready-report" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "Pentagon" - "the digest" - "UFO" - "unidentified flying object" --- # The Pentagon’s UFO Task Force Is Finally Ready to Report Findings ![The Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force is set to begin reporting some of its findings to the public in a matter of months.]() *\Image: DOD\* ## UFO Task Force The Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) Task Force, a program dedicated to investigating UFO sightings, is ready to start reporting some of its findings to the public, [*The New York Times* reports](). The news comes after the Senate released a [committee report]() last month outlining spending for the unusual task force. ## Adversarial Interference Determining whether aliens exist is not the main objective, unfortunately. The main goal, as outlined in the report, is to investigate "any links \[UFOs\] have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations." Just last week, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, [suggested to local news station *CBS Miami*]() that another country like China or Russia could have made "some technological leap," explaining previous sightings near US military bases. ## Cat's Out of the Bag News about the Pentagon's efforts to collect and investigate UAP encounters first broke in a [2017 *New York Times* investigation](), accompanied by several videos of mysterious encounters with still-unexplained flying objects. The report also found that the Defense Department had been running investigations as part of its Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program since 2007. Over the last few years, the Pentagon has started officially [releasing the videos]() and [previously classified reports]() about the encounters as well. Congress has also recently [turned up the pressure]() on the task force in an effort to have all data relating to the mysterious encounters released to the public. "It no longer has to hide in the shadows," Luis Elizondo, the former military intelligence official, who was in charge of a preceding program dedicated to UAPs, told the *Times*. "It will have a new transparency." **READ MORE:** [No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public]() \[*The New York Times*\] **More on the program:** *[Congress Is Trying to Force the Military to Release More UFO Info]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()