National Air and Space Intelligence Center

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), founded in 1959 as the Air Technical Intelligence Center and renamed in 1985, is a U.S. government organization located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Employing over 4,100 personnel with a budget exceeding $500 million, NASIC gathers and reports intelligence on air and space threats to national security. Historically linked to Wright-Patterson, former home of Project Blue Book (1947-1969), which investigated 12,618 UFO sightings. In March 2023, Congress via the Consolidated Appropriations Act mandated NASIC's role in UAP investigations, requiring DoD and Intelligence Community to share UAP data with NASIC and the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. NASIC supports threat analysis without dedicated UAP achievements noted. It remains active in intelligence operations.