2020 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P24)
Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of the UAPTF in August 2020. The task force was designed to improve understanding of UAP and gain insight into their nature and origins.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 24 of aaro historical record vol1 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
Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of the UAPTF in August 2020. The task force was designed to improve understanding of UAP and gain insight into their nature and origins.
Witnesses on file: David L. Norquist.
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.