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This unclassified briefing from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is dated February 2024 and was reviewed for release in 2025. It defines unidentified anomalous phenomena and sets out AARO's mission and vision. It also describes its operations, science and technology, analysis and strategic communications functions. It reports that only a very small percentage of UAP reports show anomalous signatures and that missing data leaves many cases unresolved. It also presents three example cases, including two resolved as commercial airliners with camera artifacts.
UNCLASSIFIED ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE (AARO) 7UNCLASSIFIED AARO INTEGRATED ANALYSIS KEY AARO ANALYTIC ACHIEVEMENTS Developed Analytic framework. Designed analytic prioritization schema. Applied new analytic framework to emerging and existing UAP reporting, introduced rigorous intelligence tradecraft, reconciled intelligence and scientific conclusions, and resolved complex cases. Familiarized intelligence consumers with AARO’s mission, its relevance to the components, and its information requirements. INTEGRATED ANALYTIC STRATEGY Leads an integrated DoD, IC, and S&T community process that employs rigorous tradecraft, sophisticated scientific methods, and an expert peer review to resolve cases with the highest confidence levels possible. (U) (U) 3. ANALYTIC PEER-REVIEW Prepare the AARO Analytic Assessment Case Package which includes original reports, sensor data, IC and S&T findings and analytic assessments. As necessary, convene both teams to discuss significant analytic difference. Package will be reviewed by members of the Strategic Technical Advisory Group for rigor, tradecraft, gaps, assumptions and argumentation. 4. DIRECTOR’S REVIEW The Director will review all elements of the Analytic Assessment Case Package and the peer review findings to either approve the Assessment’s determination or disapprove it and send back to the IC and S&T Teams for additional analysis. 5. PUBLICATION AND FEEDBACK Publishes and distributes final, peer-reviewed AARO Analytic Assessment in a manner discoverable by DoD, IC, policymakers, and other stakeholders. Provides conclusions and feedback to UAP reporting sources (i.e., UAP observers). 1. PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS Compare reported location, characteristics, performance, and signature data to open source and classified catalogues of known foreign capabilities and R&D programs; deconflict with sensitive U.S. programs and activities; triage, categorize, and store for further analysis. 2.1 SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS Public, private, and industry laboratory partners leverage scientific and engineering methods and cutting-edge computing technologies to publish peer-reviewed, forensic, repeatable research on anomalous UAP signatures and material. 2.2 INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS Mission partners' defense, intelligence, and counterintelligence analysts employ intelligence tradecraft against all-source data to produce rigorous analyses of UAP implications to U.S. National Security.03Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C) Date: 2/5/2025
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 12 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.