2020 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P24 var 2)
The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) was established in August 2020 under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. Its mission was to improve understanding of UAP and determine if they posed a threat to U.S. national security. Th
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 24 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) was established in August 2020 under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. Its mission was to improve understanding of UAP and determine if they posed a threat to U.S. national security. The task force focused on detecting, analyzing, and cataloging UAP reports.
Witnesses on file: Department of the Navy.
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.