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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense issued this Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in October 2023. It covers 291 UAP reports that AARO received for 31 August 2022 to 30 April 2023, bringing its total to 801. The report finds no adverse health effects, no confirmed foreign attribution and a continuing collection bias toward military airspace. An appended case resolution concludes that lights seen over western US military airspace in 2021 were commercial aircraft.
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# UNCLASSIFIED # All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office US Department of Defense Case: "Western United States" Case Resolution | 8 May 2023 ## (U) Key Findings (U) AARO assesses that the UAP in this case were almost certainly commercial aircraft travelling on well-established air corridors as far as 300 nautical miles from the platform, based on a thorough review of the data by multiple analytical and scientific entities. - (U) Military personnel reported seeing five equidistant lights that they believed represented a potential incursion into restricted military airspace. - (U) AARO's Intelligence and Science and Technology (S&T) partners independently came to the same conclusion in accordance with AARO's analytic framework. - (U) The objects strongly correlated with specific commercial aircraft travelling on different air routes up to 300 nautical miles from the sensor. (U) Analysis of the objects' positions and acquisition of additional data led AARO to the conclusion that the objects were significantly farther from the platform than originally estimated by the observers. ## (U) Intelligence Assessment ## (U) Case Essentials (U) Military personnel reported this case due to the observed UAP presenting a potential incursion into restricted airspace. The UAP were described as equidistant lights that flew at a relatively constant pace (U) Location: Western United States military airspace (U) Date(s): 2021 (U) Altitude: Between 20,000 to 40,000 feet (U) Shape: Oblong dots/lights (U) Reporter: Military personnel (U) Sensor: Infrared (IR) (U) Behavior: Equidistant lights that flew at a relatively constant pace (U) Case Status: Resolved; the lights were aircraft up to 300NM away from the sensor 1 UNCLASSIFIED
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.