US Aviation Intelligence Organization Adds Flying Saucer To Logo

A timeline of how UFOs suddenly went mainstream

Sept 28 Edit: After being posted for several days and getting considerable attention, the “unofficial and incorrect” UFO-bearing logo has been removed, inspiring no confidence in the ability of US intelligence agencies to secure their websites.

In another sign that reality is collapsing in on itself, the National Intelligence Manager for Aviation just punched up their logo with an unmistakable flying saucer. The “DNI’s (Director of National Intelligence) principal advisor on aviation issues” recently added the craft to its seal, positioned alongside a suite of human aircraft as if observing them with a kind of benevolent detachment. Or hostility, it’s hard to tell what the graphic designer had in mind.

This is just the latest demonstration of how serious the American government has gotten about UFO’s (since rebranded UAPs, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) over the last couple of years.

• September 2019: The US Navy admits that several puzzling UAP videos previously leaked to the public are genuine, and were recorded by naval aviators in 2004, 2014, and 2015.
• June 2021: The Director of National Intelligence releases a report entitled “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” which concludes, among other things that “Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors” and that “Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion.”
• May 2022: The US Congress holds its first open hearing on UAP in more than fifty years.
• December 2021: In the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, Congress mandates the establishment of an “Office, Organizational Structure, and Authorities to address Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”
• July 2022: Nothing much happens, so as part of the Intelligence Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2023, Congress tells the Department of Defense to get its ass in gear on the aforementioned organization. with the working title Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office. The group is told to ensure that “Temporary nonattributed objects, or those that are positively identified as man-made after analysis, will be passed to appropriate offices…”, implying that they expect to find objects which can’t be identified as man-made.
• July 2022: Properly chastened, the Department of Defense establishes the slightly less clumsily-named All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, to be responsible for investigating, and more ominously, mitigating threats from “anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects”. The Director of the new office is Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, who has serious credentials in both science and national intelligence.
• September 2022: The US Navy says they have more UAP videos, but that releasing them would “harm national security.” To be clear, this is a perfectly reasonable response, since you don’t want the Chinese or the Russians to know how your spy planes are getting all those great saucer shots. However, it’s bound to make people wonder what kind of Close Encounters footage they’ve got socked away in the archives.

None of the above means that we’ve got non-human intelligence trolling fighter pilots in restricted airspace; it may emerge that all the sightings are weather balloons, hallucinations, and lens flare. But it does mean that the US intelligence community, with all its sophisticated data-gathering tools, is worried about it.