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This is a Department of Defense trifold brochure from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). It is dated 2023 and was reviewed for release in March 2025. It sets out AARO's mission, vision and functions and defines UAP as anomalous detections that cannot yet be attributed to known actors. It asks current and former government personnel with direct knowledge of UAP programs to report them for AARO's congressionally directed Historical Record Report. It also explains how military personnel and civilian pilots should report sightings.
MISSION, VISION, & FUNCTION AARO emerged from congressional and departmental recognition that UAP present complex hazards and threats across service, regional, and domain boundaries. MISSION: Minimize technical and intelligence surprise by synchronizing scientific, intelligence and operational detection, identification, attribution, and mitigation of UAP in the vicinity of national security areas. VISION: UAP are effectively and efficiently detected, tracked, analyzed, and managed by way of normalized DoD, IC, and civil business practices; by adherence to the highest scientific and intelligence- tradecraft standards; and with greater transparency and shared awareness. OPERATIONS: Synchronizing and sequencing Theater, IC, and other capabilities for optimized, cross-functional UAP detection, tracking, mitigation, and recovery. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Revealing and exploiting elusive and enigmatic signatures through advanced technologies, and focused, cross-sector partnerships. ANALYSIS: Delivering peer-reviewed conclusions through deliberate syntheses of scientific and intelligence method, tradecraft, tools, and expertise. STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS: Driving shared awareness across mission partners, oversight authorities, and stakeholders; normalizing cross- sector partnerships and building trust with transparency. Figure from www.aaro.mil. ABOUT AARO UAP UAP are sources of anomalous detections in one or more domains (i.e., airborne, seaborne, spaceborne, and/or transmedium) that are not yet attributable to known actors and that demonstrate behaviors that are not readily understood by sensors or observers. “Anomalous detections” include, but are not limited to, phenomena that demonstrate apparent capabilities or material that exceed known performance envelopes. A UAP may consist of one or more unidentified anomalous objects and may persist over an extended period of time. • Existence of UAP is direct consequence of domain-awareness gaps. • UAP potentially represent advanced capabilities operating in our domain-awareness gaps. AARO is leading the U.S. Government’s efforts to detect, track, and analyze Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) using a rigorous scientific framework and a data-driven approach. 04 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 3/3/2025
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.