Department of Defense Announces Task Force To Investigate UFOs

The Department of Defense confirmed Friday evening that it has created a task force to help understand the role of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP), a term roughly synonymous to what the public considers to be UFOs (i.e., unidentified flying objects).

In a press release, the department said that the task force, dubbed UAPTF, was focused on investigating potential threats to national security and “gaining insight” into the “nature and origins of UAPs.”