{"id":14084,"date":"2021-05-04T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=14084"},"modified":"2021-05-06T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:35:23","slug":"dod-oig-announces-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-uap-evaluation-for-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/dod-oig-announces-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-uap-evaluation-for-may-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"DOD\/OIG Announces Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Evaluation for May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>The following memorandum was published by the Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General, on May 3, 2021. It announces the subject evaluation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and the actions taken by the DOD.<\/p>\n<p>Pressing for additional details on the DOD\/OIG UAP &#8220;Evaluation&#8221;, which I asked about WHY and WHO requested it, came up empty. According to their statement, &#8220;The DoD OIG does not have any additional information to offer beyond what is published in our project announcement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-6-2021-10-18-50-AM.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14104 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-6-2021-10-18-50-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"912\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-6-2021-10-18-50-AM.jpg 912w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-6-2021-10-18-50-AM-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-6-2021-10-18-50-AM-150x47.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-6-2021-10-18-50-AM-450x142.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-6-2021-10-18-50-AM-768x243.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-6-2021-10-18-50-AM-600x189.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/dod\/D2021-DEV0SN-0116.000_REDACTED.PDF\">DOD\/OIG Announces Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Evaluation for May 2021<\/a> [2 Pages, 0.4MB]<\/p>\n<div class=\"ead-preview\"><div class=\"ead-document\" style=\"position: relative;padding-top: 90%;\"><div class=\"ead-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocuments2.theblackvault.com%2Fdocuments%2Fdod%2FD2021-DEV0SN-0116.000_REDACTED.PDF&amp;embedded=true&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Embedded Document\" class=\"ead-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%;border: none;position: absolute;left: 0;top: 0;visibility: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-loading\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;z-index:10;\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-main\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/loading.svg\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" alt=\"Loader\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Loading...<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/EAD-logo.svg\" alt=\"EAD Logo\" width=\"36\" height=\"23\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Taking too long?<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-btn ead-reload-btn\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/reload.svg\" alt=\"Reload\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Reload document\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>|<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/dod\/D2021-DEV0SN-0116.000_REDACTED.PDF\" class=\"ead-document-btn\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/open.svg\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Open in new tab\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><p class=\"embed_download\"><a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/dod\/D2021-DEV0SN-0116.000_REDACTED.PDF\" download>Download [570.55 KB] <\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background The following memorandum was published by the Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General, on May 3, 2021. It announces the subject evaluation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and the actions taken by the DOD. Pressing for additional details on the DOD\/OIG UAP &#8220;Evaluation&#8221;, which I asked about WHY and WHO requested it,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32],"tags":[256,1337,1750,296],"class_list":{"0":"post-14084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-fringe","8":"category-ufo-phenomena","9":"tag-dod","10":"tag-uap","11":"tag-uaptf","12":"tag-ufo"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/unnamed-file-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}