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The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, under the Department of War, issued this Fiscal Year 2025 annual report to Congress on unidentified anomalous phenomena. It covers June 2, 2024, to May 30, 2025. In that period AARO received 319 reports and resolved 370 cases in total, all of them attributed to prosaic objects such as balloons, satellites, birds, aircraft and drones. The report also describes a new modeling capability that resolved 238 reports as satellite flaring and 50 drone incidents near nuclear sites, and it states that no evidence of captured UAP materials exists.
10 V. ENGAGEMENT, ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND REPORTING A. Foreign Partner Engagement During the reporting period, AARO continued to engage with international partners to exchange information and best practices for UAP reporting, analysis, and response. AARO’s deputy director presented a mission briefing to the Defense Geospatial Intelligence conference in London, United Kingdom. B. Roles and Responsibilities of Assigned Line Organizations AARO works closely with the military Services, Combatant Commands, and the relevant cognizant authorities in each operational area or domain to develop coordinated UAP mitigation and response plans, including robust reporting processes. As the DoW’s mission manager for UAP response, AARO aims to fully implement the Joint Staff’s classified UAP GENADMIN from February 2025. The military Services’ counterintelligence, law enforcement, and security agencies are the cognizant authorities responsible for responding to UAP incidents and incursions on all DoW installations and ranges. C. Authorized Reporting Mechanism AARO hosts a secure reporting mechanism on its public website, www.aaro.mil. This mechanism enables and encourages individuals claiming first-hand knowledge of a USG UAP- related program or activity dating back to 1945 to report information to AARO. AARO protects personally identifiable information it receives via this mechanism. AARO staff may only access this information to facilitate the contacting of individuals for follow-on interviews. AARO is authorized by law to receive all UAP-related information, including any classified national security information involving military or intelligence related activities, at any level of classification, regardless of any restrictive access controls, special access controls, or compartmented access programs. Generally, no restrictions, including non-disclosure agreements, prevent AARO from receiving UAP-related information, regardless of the organizational affiliation of the original classification authority within the DoW, the IC, or any other USG department or agency. Between June 2, 2024, and May 30, 2025, 262 individuals contacted AARO via the secure reporting mechanism on its website. AARO determined that 255 were out-of-scope and identified 7 individuals whose claims warranted a request for a follow-on interview. AARO prioritizes interviewing current or former USG employees, contractors, or service members claiming to have first-hand knowledge of a USG UAP-related program per the eligibility requirement for a report to qualify as an authorized disclosure.
Official release, from the aaro collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 14 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.