Case File · AARO · AATIP/UAPTF Era (2017-2021) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

2020 UAP Sighting — AARO Records

UFO Visual Sighting

The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) operated from August 2020 to November 2021. The document does not provide details about specific observations or findings of this task force, only its timeframe.

August 2020
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 196
Source document: PURSUE doc 196 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 2 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated August 2020 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) operated from August 2020 to November 2021. The document does not provide details about specific observations or findings of this task force, only its timeframe.

Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.

Status of the case

The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.

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