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Pentagon creates the AOIMSG to succeed the UAP Task Force

Name: Pentagon creates the AOIMSG to succeed the UAP Task Force
Start: 2021-11-23
Location: The Pentagon

When: 23 Nov 2021
Where: The Pentagon
Sources: 1 public source

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, who directed creation of the AOIMSG United States Department of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks directed the intelligence under secretary to set up the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group as successor to the Navy's UAP Task Force, focused on objects in special use airspace. It was later replaced by AARO.

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OfficialDoD Announces the Establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) (opens in a new tab)U.S. Department of Defense (war.gov) / 2021-11-23

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