As we’ve discussed here in the past, the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), created to study observed incidents of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs or just UFOs), was replaced by the UAP Task Force, and then by a new office with the annoyingly unpronounceable acronym of AOIMSG. All of the congressional activity revolving around this subject over the past couple of years has suggested that we were finally going to be seeing a bit more transparency out of the military and intelligence communities in terms of what they actually know about the entire UFO situation and what, if anything, they propose to do about it. I wasn’t quite so sure about that. In fact, at the beginning of the year, I asked whether this new office might simply represent the next stage of a coverup that’s been ongoing for at least 75 years. It appears that my concerns were not totally unfounded. As it turns out, the UAPTF issued new classification guidelines over the winter which, if implemented, will classify every document, video, and photograph in their possession as Secret, blocking them from public view or disclosure. We learned of this recently in an article published at The Hill by former deputy assistant Defense Secretary for Intelligence Chris Mellon, and he is none too happy with this development.
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