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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.
4 • The number of reported incidents, and descriptions thereof, of UAP associated with military nuclear assets, including strategic nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered ships and submarines. • Results of consultation with the Administrator for Nuclear Security regarding the number of reported incidents, and description thereof, of UAP associated with facilities or assets associated with the production, transportation, or storage of nuclear weapons or components thereof. • Results of consultation with the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding the number of reported incidents, and descriptions thereof, of UAP or drones of unknown origin associated with nuclear power generating stations, nuclear fuel storage sites, or other sites or facilities regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. • The names of the line organizations that have been designated to perform the specific functions including Response to and Field Investigations and Scientific, Technological, and Operational Analyses of Data on UAP, and the specific functions for which each such line organization has been assigned primary responsibility. • A summary of the reports received using the mechanism for authorized reporting established under section 3373b of this title. AARO drafted this report in coordination with the Military Services, DoW, and Intelligence Community (IC) partners across the United States Government (USG). III. OVERVIEW OF REPORTS A. Overall Trend Analysis As of May 30, 2025, AARO’s case holdings contain 1,870 reports. From June 2, 2024, to May 30, 2025, AARO received 319 UAP reports, of which 284 featured UAP-related events occurring during the reporting period and 35 featured UAP-related events that occurred between 2010 and 2024. Of these, AARO assesses that 274 UAP reports occurred in the air domain, 44 in the space domain, and one in the maritime domain. None of AARO’s space-domain case assessments originated from space-based sensors. Forty-two UAP reports originated from civilian pilot reports via the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and two originated from ground-based U.S. Space Command sensors.
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.