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ODNI

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Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) oversees and coordinates the U.S. intelligence community. It has been a key interlocutor in uap-disclosure efforts, including:

  • Prior UAP preliminary assessments to Congress

  • Coordinating with aaro and DoD on UAP records

  • In March 2026, publicly announcing via social media that UAP files “will soon be declassified” under donald-trump’s February 2026 directive (src-trump-uap-files-delay-2026-03)

  • On May 8, 2026, DNI tulsi-gabbard became the named ODNI coordinator for the pursue inaugural release: “actively coordinating the Intelligence Community’s declassification efforts with the Department of War” for “comprehensive and unprecedented review” of holdings; called the May 8 release “the first in what will be an ongoing joint declassification and release effort” (src-dow-uap-files-release-2026-05).

  • src-nbc-pursue-firsthand-encounters-2026-05 attributes the pursue Release 02 late-2025 senior-intelligence-officer orange-orb helicopter encounter to an ODNI memo — the same encounter Fox framed as an FBI Form 302 (src-fox-helicopter-near-miss-orbs-2026-05); the location is withheld in both.

  • In June 2026, ODNI co-established the UAP Governance Board alongside the FBI and Department of War — the first dedicated interagency UAP governance body. The board’s charter explicitly names aaro as the primary beneficiary of its activities. ODNI’s participation was confirmed on-record by a senior official in DefenseScoop (src-defensescoop-uap-science-council-2026-06); Liberation Times reported the first meeting occurred June 15–16, 2026 (src-uap-governance-board-2026-06).

  • On August 1, 2026, ODNI released (via Rep. eric-burlison’s office) a preliminary implementation memo (ES 2026-00818, signed by Principal Deputy DNI aaron-lukas) operationalizing donald-trump’s July 21, 2026 UAP NDA-waiver directive — formally routing NDA-waived disclosures to pursue and setting a 30-day IC point-of-contact deadline (src-odni-nda-waiver-memo-2026-07).

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