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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.
13 APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY OF TERMS Active Archive: The active archive is a repository of cases lacking sufficient data to facilitate a comprehensive analysis. AARO retains these cases in an archive to support UAP pattern of life and reporting trend analyses. AARO reopens archived cases should additional data of sufficient quality become available. Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP): Sources of anomalous detections in one or more domain (i.e., airborne, maritime, spaceborne, and/or transmedium) that are not attributable to known actors and that demonstrate behaviors that are not readily understood by sensors or observers. “Anomalous detections” include but are not limited to phenomena that demonstrate apparent capabilities or material that exceed known performance envelopes. A UAP may consist of one or more unidentified anomalous objects and may persist over an extended period. Airborne UAP: Sources of anomalous detections between the Earth’s sea level and the Karman Line (100 kilometers above Earth’s mean sea level). Maritime UAP: Sources of anomalous detections at or below Earth’s sea level within a body of water. Spaceborne UAP: Sources of anomalous detections above the Karman Line. Transmedium UAP: Sources of anomalous detections that transit more than one domain. UAP Data: Any record of anomalous detections, UAP observations, effects (on persons or equipment). UAP data includes but is not limited to physical or digital notes, still photography, FMV recordings, and audio recordings. UAP Incident: Any anomalous detection in any domain reported by an observer or recorded via sensors. UAP Incursion: Any UAP incident occurring in, on, or near U.S. military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace, proximity operations, or other national security areas of interest such as U.S. critical infrastructure, IC equities, or the national defense equities of U.S. defense partners, military allies, and intelligence coalitions (e.g., FVEY).
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.