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BREAKING NEWS:
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT PAYDIRT:
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF WORLDWIDE UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA REPORTING PROCEDURES (MAY 19, 2023)
By Douglas Dean Johnson
On May 19, 2023, the Joint Staff (J3, Operations; J36 Homeland Defense Division) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff disseminated to all unified military commands worldwide a set of uniform procedures to be followed for gathering data and reporting on contemporary military encounters with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), using a detailed standard reporting template.
I have now obtained a copy of that Pentagon message. I believe that its detailed contents are being made public here for the first time…
Journalist
@BrandiVincent_
referred in passing to the existence of this message in a DefenseScoop article dated August 30, 2023 ("Hicks takes direct oversight of Pentagon’s UAP office; new reporting website to be launched"). I promptly asked Pentagon press officer Susan Gough to release a copy to me, but Gough replied, "I cannot provide a copy of the message to you, as it contains information that’s not publicly releasable."
On August 31, 2023, I filed a FOIA request for the GENADMIN message. The Department of Defense Freedom of Information Division has now released the 9-page document to me (response letter dated March 15, 2024, received by me on March 18), with only minimal redactions. After redacting my personal information, I am now making the complete FOIA release available at the link below. (The image merely shows the first page of the document; click on the link to download the complete PDF.)
INITIAL OBSERVATIONS
Among the noteworthy aspects I see in the May 2023 Joint Staff communication:
-- An introductory paragraph states: "The U.S. government has observed UAP in or near the territory and/or operating areas of the United States, of its allies, and of its adversaries, and observing, identifying, and potentially mitigating UAP has become a growing priority for US policymakers, lawmakers, and warfighters. The potentially ubiquitous presence of UAP defines the national security implications of those anomalies, which range from operational hazards and threats to technological and intelligence surprise to adversaries' strategic miscalculations. It is imperative that DoD provide UAP incident, incursion, and engagement...reporting, data, and material for the Department's detection and mitigation of potential threats; exploitation of advanced technologies; and informing policymaker and warfighter decisions."
--Reports on UAP incidents are to be transmitted upwards with 96 hours, but any "UAP engagement reports" within 12 hours. A "UAP engagement is a kinetic or non-kinetic response to a UAP, intended to deny, disrupt, or destroy the phenomenon and/or its object(s)."
-- The ultimate nexus of collection and analysis of these reports is the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
-- The reporting procedures in the Joint Staff message apply only to detections or encounters "that demonstrate behaviors not readily understood by sensors or observers...[that] include but are not limited to phenomena that demonstrate apparent capabilities or material that exceed known performance envelopes." The UAP reporting procedures described in this directive do NOT apply to "incidents, incursions, and engagements by identifiable, non-anomalous phenomena (e.g., sUAS and other capabilities or materials that do not exceed known or predicted performance envelopes);" such incidents will instead "continue to be reported through established processes and mechanisms."
-- The reporting matrix seeks 11 categories of information-- among these, any UAP-displayed "anomalous characteristics/behaviors (e.g., no apparent control surfaces, extreme acceleration/direction change, detection by certain sensors but not others)," and any "UAP effects on equipment (e.g., mechanical, electrical controls and weapons systems and whether persistent or transitory").
-- AARO will coordinate the handling of any UAP "objects and material of incidents, intrusions, and engagements," but "recovery and transfer of identifiable, non-anomalous items of foreign origin...continue to be managed by the DoD FMP [Foreign Material Program]."
-- The military commands are to "enable deployment of special sensors within the AoR [area of responsibility] for the detection, observation, and identification in sensitive areas, and during testing or deployment of special capabilities."
originally posted by: Athetos
No idea what you mean.
a reply to: pianopraze
originally posted by: Ravenwatcher
Even Jesus wouldn't come to Earth little lone Aliens (Probably one in the same) they would be killed on the spot - Humans are not ready for either one to return and will not be for thousands of years .
originally posted by: ARM19688
You see we are way past all of the jawing now. It’s just more words. Splitting hairs, obfuscations, lies and deceit are all we get. We know that there are things flying in our skies that our military and politicians do not understand. Even the retrieved craft aren’t helping them - those more recent and those found across the globe from more ancient times.
I’m pretty done with it all. It all seems like games being played by children. I’m ready for the truth, I don’t think they can handle it. If aliens are so far advanced and intelligent, they would have realised by now that TPTB are just trying to use them and or any craft they might have recovered for gains in power and military know how. It would be obvious that they need to circumvent those morons and reveal themselves to the world, except now we’re told they’re demons, inter dimensional entities etc etc. far from quelling people’s fear they seem to be stoking it. I wonder why.
It has gone so far now that if the empire turned up and parked their fleets overhead most people would mutter Blue Beam and ignore it. TPTB have done a brilliant job.
Where are you getting aliens from?
originally posted by: pianopraze
Have waited a couple days as I don’t understand this fully.
Apparently they found a memo for reporting aliens in a foia.
What happens in two weeks?
originally posted by: pianopraze
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
Two. More. Weeks.
originally posted by: Ravenwatcher
Even Jesus wouldn't come to Earth little lone Aliens (Probably one in the same) they would be killed on the spot - Humans are not ready for either one to return and will not be for thousands of years .