U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)
U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) is a unified combatant command of the U.S. military responsible for defending the homeland. It shares leadership with norad and focuses on defending North America.
Relevance to UAP
- The FY2026 NDAA mandates aaro brief Congress on all UAP intercept operations conducted by USNORTHCOM and norad since 2004
- Briefings must include the number, location, and nature of intercepts; procedural details; and all collected data
- Concerns about unexplained drone and UAP incursions near military installations and critical infrastructure drove these legislative requirements
See src-uap-ndaa-fy2026-intercept-provisions for full legislative details.
March 2026 FAK Drone Defeat
Per src-northcom-drone-incursion-2026-03, Gen. Gregory Guillot disclosed in Senate posture testimony that NORTHCOM’s Flyaway Kit detected and defeated a small drone over a “strategic” U.S. installation in the opening hours of operation-epic-fury. The FAK had been certified at minot-afb in October 2025 during us-stratcom’s Global Thunder exercise. As of March 2026 NORTHCOM held only one FAK, with additional units due Spring 2026 (src-drone-incursions-epic-fury-2026-03). Guillot told Sen. eric-schmitt that detections across U.S. bases are up year-over-year and NORTHCOM’s defeat rate has risen from near zero to ~25%.
See also drone-incursions and the foundational March 2025 60 Minutes piece where Guillot first publicly previewed the FAK concept.
Almost-daily framing (October 2025)
Per src-directed-energy-5-bases-pilot-2026-05, NORTHCOM characterized drone incursions over U.S. military installations as “almost daily” in an October 2025 statement, complementing Guillot’s February 2025 figure of 350 detections at ~100 installations in the prior year. This framing underwrote the May 2026 jiatf-401 directed-energy-weapons 5-base pilot.
See also: norad, aaro, ndaa-uap-provisions, uap-disclosure, gregory-guillot, flyaway-kit, glen-vanherck, langley-afb, barksdale-afb, src-directed-energy-5-bases-pilot-2026-05
NORTHCOM UAP records in PURSUE Release 01
- June 2024 video: pursue Release 01 includes a NORTHCOM video described as “an inverted teardrop with a vertically linear trailing mass” — an “object with a vertical pole or bar attached to the bottom” (src-newsweek-luna-teases-disclosure-2026-05).
- A 100-second 2024 INDOPACOM IR clip showing a bright dot moving through an array of windmills appears in the same release set (src-space-com-pursue-video-trove-2026-05); see us-indo-pacific-command for the parallel command’s PURSUE entries.