UAP Space Tiger Team FOIA release
Joint Staff Action Processing Form, dated November 20, 2023, describing an AARO-led coordinated effort with USSPACECOM and the Space Force on space and transmedium UAP cases. Released to The Black Vault via FOIA on May 1, 2026.
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Official description
DoD Joint Staff Action Processing Form (FOIA case 24-F-1205), authored within the Office of the Secretary of Defense and routed through the Joint Staff. Establishes an AARO-coordinated working group, internally called the 'UAP Space Tiger Team,' to address UAP cases occurring in or transiting space and the air-space boundary. Lists named coordination points at USSPACECOM and the Space Force.
Editor's context
This is a governance document, not an incident record. It is significant because it confirms in writing that AARO had, by late 2023, formalized a space-and-transmedium working group, addressing a long-running gap between Navy/Air Force UAP reporting (atmospheric) and the unrelated USSPACECOM observation chain (orbital). It also documents inter-agency UAP coordination outside the Navy-centric framing that dominated 2021-22 reporting.
Prevailing explanation
What scientists and analysts generally think
The document describes an organizational structure, not a phenomenon. There is no observed event to explain. The interpretive value is in confirming that the US government's UAP response is broader than the air-atmospheric domain.
In the margins
Transcribed redactions, stamps, and handwritten markings, the paratext of the file. Often the most human part of a declassified document, and worth reading on its own.
- Stampp. page 1JOINT STAFF ACTION PROCESSING FORM
- StampFOIA CASE 24-F-1205, RELEASED IN FULL
- AnnotationCoordination points named: AARO (lead), USSPACECOM, US Space Force.
- AnnotationInternal working-group name: 'UAP Space Tiger Team.'
- AnnotationDocument dated November 20, 2023. Released to The Black Vault by DoD on May 1, 2026.
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U.S. Department of Defense. "UAP Space Tiger Team FOIA release." Released via PURSUE program, 2026-05-01. File ID: DoD FOIA 24-F-1205. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/newly-released-documents-show-uap-space-tiger-team-built-around-space-and-transmedium-cases/. Accessed 2026-09-07 via Social Media for Aliens archive, https://socialmediaforaliens.com/files/uap-space-tiger-team-2026.
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