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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.
8 Figure 3: Reported Airborne UAP Altitudes from June 2, 2024 - May 30, 2025 C. Notable Trends Regarding Prosaic Objects AARO routinely resolves UAP-related events involving satellite flaring using three- dimensional modeling techniques. Reports involving satellites often include descriptions of bright, colored lights at high altitudes, or moving “orbs” of light. AARO resolved 44 UAP- related events as attributable to satellite flaring during the reporting period. AARO continues to resolve many UAP-related events as balloons of various kinds, ranging from latex or reflective foil “party balloons” to large research balloons carrying tethered payloads. Reporters often characterize their observations as being clearly identifiable as balloons within the initial report. AARO is well equipped to identify balloons through full motion video (FMV) or still imagery analysis. D. Flight Safety Issues No reports indicated a flight safety concern during this reporting period.
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.