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Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 2024 · 18 pages · text from the file's own layer

The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued this Fiscal Year 2024 consolidated annual report to Congress under 50 U.S.C. 3373(k). It covers 757 UAP reports received from May 1, 2023 to June 1, 2024. Every resolved case turned out to be a prosaic object such as a balloon, bird, drone, satellite or aircraft. The report says AARO has found no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology, no health effects on observers, and no data showing any UAP was captured.

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E. Flight Safety Issues
Of the 392 FAA reports received during the reporting period, only one report mentioned
a possible flight safety issue during the event. In this instance, a commercial aircrew reported a
near miss with a “cylindrical object” while over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York.
AARO continues its research into, and analysis of, this case.
F. UAS Observations Reported Near U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure, Weapons, and Launch
Sites
Reports from the Administrator for Nuclear Security and the Chairman of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
AARO received a total of 18 reports from the Administrator for Nuclear Security and
Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding incidents near U.S. nuclear
infrastructure, weapons, and launch sites. The Administrator for Nuclear Security and Chairman
of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission categorized all of these incidents as UAS.
• Ten of the reported UAS flew over protected areas for a duration less than five minutes.
Two instances involved longer flight times of 53 minutes and 1 hour and 57 minutes
respectively. Flight duration is unknown for the remaining six cases.
• Sixteen cases involved only one UAS, while the remaining two cases each reported two
UAS involved in the event. In one instance, the UAS entered and departed the protected
area twice.
• On-site security observed UAS in at least half of the UAS cases. On August 3, 2023, the
D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant security recovered a crashed UAS that was given to
Berrien County, Michigan, local law enforcement (LLE). AARO has no further
information about the crashed UAS.
• During October 10-15, 2023, USPER BWXT (formerly known as USPER Babcock and
Wilson Nuclear Energy) Fuel Cycle Facility in Lynchburg, Virginia, observed UAS
flyovers for six consecutive nights. Only one UAS system was spotted in each
occurrence, and there is no data on estimated flight duration for each occurrence.
G. AARO Possesses No Data to Indicate the Capture or Exploitation of UAP
AARO is working with mission partners to formalize a process in the event UAP materiel
is captured, drawing on current USG capabilities and operating procedures.
H. No Health/Physiological Impacts from UAP Incidents Reported
AARO received no reports suggesting any observers of UAP suffered any physiological
impacts or adverse health effects. The DoD acknowledges that health-related effects may
manifest at any time after an event occurs, therefore any reported health implications related to
UAP will be documented and reported if they emerge.

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Official release, from the aaro collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 18 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.