UAPs and luminous ghosts
YEAR OF THE UAP
‘UAP’ now seems to have taken over from the UFO acronym and flying saucers have now been replaced by tic-tac or pyramidshaped craft.
Media interest in UFOs – sorry, UAPs – has escalated in recent years with the release of US Navy videos and the testimony of Navy pilots, and it reached a peak with the release by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) of their preliminary UAP assessment report on 25 June 2021 (see FT408:30, 409:51).
Another milestone in 2021 was the establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) announced by the Pentagon in a memorandum dated 23 November. It will be directed and overseen by the Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council (AOIMEXEC). The AOIMSG’s mission is to synchronise the detection and identification of UAPs – “objects of interest” – that are reported in areas designated as Special Use Airspace (SUA) where they might pose a threat to flight crew safety or national security.
In coordination with the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) the Director of
