"You Can't Know the Players Without a Program": Who and what of Early 2000's

 SO what has been happening?   - - - Notes from some research...

2006, November 7, Chicago, Illinois; O’Hara Airport and crew and passengers of United Airlines witnessed a large metallic craft at 4:15 p.m. Explained as weather phenomena.

2007, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a DOD program, begins operations. It is recognized in 2012 (with implications of an earlier start) and ceased in 2017.

2015, January; GIMBAL video taken by an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.

2015, National report;  Average UFO reports from US States 2001-2015 listed Oklahoma as reporting 1088 cases. Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/19/states-with-the-most-ufo-sightings/39306977/ and https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/05/14/these-are-the-states-with-the-most-ufo-sightings/; Cheryl Costa’s, “UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015: Unidentified Flying Objects Frequency–Distribution–Shapes.”

2016, January; “GOFAST”, video taken by crew associated with the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.

2018, June 4, Stillwell, Oklahoma; A strange report of a person who had been encountering strange things since the middle of May. His dog began acting strange, an odd light – spherical and yellow to orange pulsating light – began to appear. It would hover over nearby trees.  A strange figure was seen – faintly military in appearance but wearing sunglasses, dark suits, and giving off a strange “vibe.” These strangers communicated through telepathic means. The strangers seemed to know what life decisions he was facing and calmed him about the different path being chosen for him. SOURCE: URECAT – UFO’s Related Entities Catalog. 

2020, June, Washington, D.C.; “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee detailing information about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

2020, June, Washington, D.C.; Formation of the “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), within the Office of the Navy.  Processor was Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and its successor the “Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group” (AOIMSG).

2020, Washington, D.C.; "DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified,'" the Pentagon said in a statement accompanying its official release of the videos (GIMBAL, FLIR, GOFAST) in 2020.

2021 November 23, Washington, D.C.; The successor to the UAPTF was the “Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group” (AOIMSG). Its oversight and direction is by an Executive Council, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council (AOIMEXEC). The AOIMEXEC is to be co-chaired by the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (USD; I&S), and the Director of Operations, Joint Staff, and an acting director for the AOIMSG.