UAP Interagency Task Force: Declassified Emails and Briefing Slides

Inside the UAP Interagency Task Force: Declassified Emails, Briefing Slides, and the Air Force Email Trail

A merged reading of two official releases — a Department of the Air Force FOIA production on UAP media queries and a U.S. Navy-released UAP briefing package with July 2020 interagency emails — showing how the UAP Interagency Task Force was briefed, how stigma shaped reporting, and what the record still does not prove.

Published

September 11, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Opening summary

Two official releases, archived by The Black Vault, now sit side by side in the public record on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The first is a Department of the Air Force FOIA production, identified in the source record as "2021 03311 F 2021 03312 F," which partially denied two June 2021 requests for emails to and from USAF spokespersons containing UAP-related terms. S.

Navy-released UAP briefing package, identified in the source record as USSCReferredRedacted, containing a July 2020 interagency email chain and briefing slides describing the UAP Interagency Task Force (ITF).

Read together, the two releases show two different faces of the same institutional moment. The Air Force material captures how public-affairs offices fielded UAP queries routed to unit level and answered narrowly. The Navy-released package captures how the ITF itself was being explained internally — to senior leaders, to component commanders, and to partner agencies — at the moment…

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This article is based on two official releases archived by The Black Vault: a Department of the Air Force FOIA production (2021-03111-F and 2021-03112-F) and a U.S. Navy-released UAP briefing package identified in the source record as USSCReferredRedacted. Both are partially redacted. The article does not assert conclusions beyond what the released text supports. Official source documents referenced in this article: - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/air-force-spokespeople-e-mails-on-ufos-uaps/ - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-releases-uap-briefing-documents/

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