The Pentagon is reorganizing its UFO tracking task force.

This is stated in the statement of the department.

The new unit, which will replace the previously existing US Navy Special Group on Unidentified Air Phenomena, was named AOIMSG (Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group).

“Today, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, working closely with the Director of National Intelligence, directed the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to establish an Air Objects Identification and Coordination Group (AOIMSG) under his command, which will replace the Navy Special Group. United States on unidentified aerial phenomena, ”the Pentagon said in a statement.

It is also noted that the AOIMSG will coordinate the efforts of the Department of Defense and the US government as a whole "to identify, identify and establish the nature of objects of interest in special purpose airspace", as well as to analyze and neutralize any associated threats from the point of view of flight safety and national security.

“To oversee the work of the AOIMSG, she (Kathleen Hicks -

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) to chair the Air Objects Identification and Measures Executive Council (AOIMEXEC), which includes will include people from the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.

This Council will provide a platform for the representation of various US departments, ”the US Department of Defense said.

As emphasized in the department, the Pentagon "takes very seriously" reports on the penetration of any air objects - both identified and unidentified - and checks each of them.

Recall that the Pentagon created the task force on unidentified air phenomena back in August 2020.

As the department explained then, this was done in order to "better understand and get an idea of ​​the nature and origin of unidentified air phenomena."

"The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog unidentified aerial phenomena that may pose a threat to US national security," the US Department of Defense said.

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It was also clarified that the UFO task force will work under the auspices of the US Department of the Navy and the office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.

UFOs as a tradition

It should be noted that the topic of unidentified flying objects quite often becomes the subject of discussion in the United States.

The Pentagon has been working on the study of UFOs for many years.

So, in the early 1950s, the United States Air Force took up the Blue Book project, within the framework of which reports of unidentified flying objects were to be studied, this phenomenon was to be investigated.

During the implementation of the program, in 1952, two American fighters tried to catch up with luminous objects in the sky over Washington.

The Blue Book was closed in 1969.

The final report stated that the appearance of UFOs was due to optical illusions or atmospheric phenomena that did not pose a danger to the United States.

After that, periodically information about unidentified aerial objects appeared in the American media.

Another wave of this kind of messages arose in 2017, as did data on the Pentagon's program, one of the tasks of which was to study UFOs.

Later, the US Department of Defense confirmed that the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP) existed from 2007 to 2012.

In 2019, the US Ground Forces Command's Ground Transportation Systems Development Center confirmed its participation in a joint research project with To The Stars Academy (TTSA), which studies UFOs and unidentified atmospheric phenomena.

The American authorities were interested in the study of this organization, called ADAM, the purpose of which was to collect and analyze information about metamaterials obtained, including during the study of UFOs.

In addition to the Pentagon, the US intelligence community is also studying unidentified flying objects.

So, on June 25, 2021, the Office of the Director of US National Intelligence (ODNI) presented to Congress a report on unidentified air phenomena.

The document says that US intelligence services cannot yet provide an accurate explanation of the nature of the origin of UFOs previously seen by the US military.

The report analyzed 144 incidents from 2004 to 2021.

“The limited amount of high quality evidence of unidentified aerial events makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions about the nature of these phenomena or the associated intent,” the report said.

Several types of unidentified air phenomena (UNPs) have also been reported, which require different explanations based on how the available evidence describes "the process of their occurrence and course."

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“Our analysis of the data speaks in favor of the version that after clarifying the circumstances of individual incidents with EE, they will be classified into one of five categories of possible explanations: the presence of interference in the air, natural atmospheric phenomena, US government and industry development programs, systems of foreign adversaries as well as the overarching item "other", - the report notes.

US intelligence also believes that at least some of the UFO sightings may be related to testing of experimental developments in Russia and China.

Red herring

As political analyst Alexander Asafov noted, the topic of UFOs, so often raised in American society by the Pentagon, intelligence and the media, is needed by Washington to divert attention from the internal problems of the United States.

“Stories about unidentified flying objects, their identification and study always attract a lot of attention due to their sensationalism.

And the Pentagon, as well as other departments of the United States, are used to using this, "the expert said in an interview with RT.

Asafov also stated that the Pentagon, which has a colossal military budget at its disposal, often spends money quite thoughtlessly on extremely paradoxical projects, the effectiveness of which is not obvious.

"The same applies to programs, various reports and even operational special groups of the Pentagon, aimed at cataloging UFOs," the analyst said.

As the military observer of TASS, retired colonel Viktor Litovkin, explained, the creation of the Airborne Objects Identification and Coordination Group (AOIMSG) to detect and study UFOs is a "bureaucratic measure."

“This structure is designed to reorganize the area associated with the detection and study of unidentified flying objects.

The point is to coordinate the actions in this area of ​​several departments at once, including the Pentagon.

If earlier different structures worked on this mostly in parallel, not always in concert, now the task is to concentrate on joining efforts, "the expert noted in a conversation with RT.

According to American political scientist Malek Dudakov, the Pentagon wants to show the world through the creation of AOIMSG that the topic of UFOs may well be in the military-political discourse, and not in the last place.

“We have seen how the US Department of Defense has been more actively promoting the importance of identifying and studying unidentified flying objects for several years.

About ten years ago, conversations on this topic were considered conspiracy theories.

I mean, people who talk seriously about UFOs are a little crazy.

Now we see how the Pentagon, intelligence and other departments focus on this and take concrete steps, "the analyst said in a commentary on RT.

Dudakov recalled that in the American media more and more materials are published in which current US officers, Pentagon pilots admit that they often encounter unidentified objects that move very quickly and may be extraterrestrial.

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At the same time, analysts agree that the Air Objects Identification and Coordination Group (AOIMSG) will be engaged in detecting not only UFOs, but also tracking developments and the latest models of military equipment from other countries, including Russia and China.

“Of course, the new structure will deal with this task as well, one does not interfere with the other,” Litovkin believes.

Dudakov adheres to a similar position.

According to him, the need for such actions can be justified by "some tales" about secret developments in Russia, China and other countries.

“All this will be used as an excuse to monitor the actions of other states in the development of weapons,” he concluded.