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This is the Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena from the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, dated October 2023. It covers 291 UAP reports that the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) received between 31 August 2022 and 30 April 2023, bringing its total to 801. It found no adverse health effects and no reports attributed to foreign activity. It concludes that most UAP will likely resolve to ordinary phenomena once better data is collected.
UNCLASSIFIED 5 UNCLASSIFIED III. UAP REPORTING IS INCREASING ACROSS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT (USG), AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IMPROVED ANALYTIC PROCESSES IS REVEALING TRENDS A. Overall Trend Analysis The report covers UAP reports from August 31, 2022, to 30 April 2023, and all UAP reports from any previous time periods that were not included in an earlier report. AARO received a total of 291 UAP reports during this period, consisting of 274 that occurred during this period and another 17 that occurred during previous reporting periods from 2019-2022 but had not been conveyed in previous submissions. Of these reports, 290 occurred within the air domain and one in the maritime domain. No transmedium or space domain UAP reports were submitted to AARO. The increase in reporting is, in part, due to deepening federal relationships and AARO’s ability to incorporate new reports into its adjudication and research process. UAP mission partners continue to coordinate, collaborate, and streamline processes. With these new reports, as of April 30, 2023, AARO has received a total of 801 UAP reports. B. Geographic and Safety Trends Coming into Focus Reporting from this period continues to depict a strong but shifting collection bias. Most reports still reflect a bias towards restricted military airspace, a result of reporting from military personnel and sensors present in such areas. This bias has been lessened by reporting from commercial pilots showing a more diverse geographic distribution of UAP sightings across the United States. However, these reports mostly cover observations over U.S. airspace and littoral waters, and therefore, as these reports continue to come in, a U.S.-centric collection bias will grow significantly relative to the rest of the world.01 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 1/23/2025
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