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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.
11 VI. AARO PROGRAM UPDATES AARO continues to refine processes and adopt new tools to resolve UAP cases with higher confidence. During this reporting period, AARO onboarded a new analytic capability that has significantly improved the office’s ability to efficiently determine when UAP reports are attributable to satellite flaring. This capability, consisting of advanced three-dimensional modeling and simulation applications, enabled analysts to resolve 238 reported UAP as satellite flaring. AARO continues to develop its all-source analysis methodology and take an innovative approach to solving novel problems using proven intelligence tradecraft techniques. In FY2025, AARO launched several multi-domain, multi-modal sensor and algorithmic prototyping initiatives to detect, track, characterize, identify and potentially attribute anomalous detections. AARO chose to pursue a wide range of sensor capabilities to better detect and measure diverse, complementary features such as state conditions, body dynamics, and spectral characteristics. AARO Director Dr. Jon Kosloski participated in several on-camera interviews with national-level audiences, including both traditional television and new media formats. AARO’s effort to engage with a broad audience supports the office’s objectives to destigmatize UAP reporting, emphasize the national security implications associated with domain awareness gaps, and inform the public on what information is most valuable when making a UAP report. AARO continues to update its public-facing website, www.aaro.mil, with declassified UAP data and footage, case resolutions, UAP analytic trends, and other information about its mission. AARO’s website hosts the secure mechanism for authorized reporting of UAP programs or activities by current and former USG employees, service members, and contractors. AARO regularly resolves cases and makes case resolutions available on its public-facing, unclassified website. AARO has published case resolutions, imagery, calculations, and modeling associated with some of the UAP cases best known to the public. These include the case known to the public as “Go Fast,” originally released via unauthorized disclosure in 2017, and a well-known UAP event occurring in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, in 2013. Responding to public interest, AARO also published newly declassified imagery associated with unresolved UAP reports that lack sufficient technical data for analysis. AARO launched an “Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA) Reading Room” containing responsive documents to FOIA requests relating to AARO since its establishment. The E-FOIA Reading Room is available to the public on AARO’s website. VII. WAY FORWARD AARO will continue to develop partnerships across the USG, academia, and commercial communities. AARO seeks to capitalize on a diverse set of sensor technology capabilities and intelligence analytic tradecraft through these partnerships to improve the USG’s effort to investigate and respond to UAP in the air, maritime, and space domains at scale and speed.
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.