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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.
6 Figure 1: AARO’s Closed Cases by Identified Object Type from June 2, 2024 – May 30, 2025 B. Diversification and Sources of Reporting FAA UAP reports from civilian aviators constituted 21 percent of AARO’s incoming reporting. These reports, although less data-rich on an individual basis than most DoW reporting, provide AARO invaluable access to a much broader pool of reporting for potentially anomalous incidents over the continental United States and its littoral waters. These reports often contain narrative descriptions with sufficient detail to produce high-confidence assessments, especially in reports describing morphologies or behaviors consistent with satellite flaring. IV. OVERVIEW OF ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS A. Reported Morphologies Reporting trends for UAP morphologies remain consistent with historical patterns. In incidents where reporters provided a description of the phenomenon’s distinct visual characteristics, lights (33 percent) and spheroidal objects (40 percent) were the most reported morphologies (Figure 3). Phenomena within the “other” category include less-commonly described morphologies such as “cross-shaped,” “a star shape,” “an elongated diamond shape like two inverted pyramids,” and a “flaming object that fell from the sky.”
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.