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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 020_Western_US

Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. · 2023 · 2 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is a case resolution from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated 8 May 2023, about a 2021 report from military airspace in the Western United States. Military personnel saw five equidistant infrared lights flying at a fairly constant pace and thought they might be an incursion into restricted airspace. AARO and its partners concluded the objects were almost certainly commercial aircraft on established air routes up to 300 nautical miles from the sensor. The page was cleared as unclassified and released in full in February 2025.

020Page determined to be Unclassified
Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO
IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C)
Date: 02/06/2025

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