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This is the Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office's Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, covering reports from May 1, 2023 to June 1, 2024 and released in full in February 2025. AARO received 757 reports, and every case it resolved turned out to be a prosaic object such as a balloon, bird, drone or satellite. It found no evidence of extraterrestrial activity and no reported health effects. The report also covers drone flights near nuclear facilities and the release of its Historical Record Report.
UNCLASSIFIED 1 UNCLASSIFIED Table of Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................... 2 II. SCOPE .................................................................................................................................................... 2 III. OVERVIEW OF REPORTS .................................................................................................................. 4 A. Overall Trend Analysis ..................................................................................................................... 4 B. Diversification and Sources of Reporting ....................................................................................... 6 IV. OVERVIEW OF ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS .................................................................................. 7 A. Reported Morphologies .................................................................................................................... 7 B. Reported Altitudes ............................................................................................................................ 8 C. Geographic Trends ........................................................................................................................... 9 D. Notable Trends Regarding Prosaic Objects ................................................................................. 10 E. Flight Safety Issues .......................................................................................................................... 11 F. UAS Observations Reported Near U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure, Weapons, and Launch Sites 11 G. AARO Possesses No Data to Indicate the Capture or Exploitation of UAP .............................. 11 H. No Health/Physiological Impacts from UAP Incidents Reported............................................... 11 V. ENGAGEMENT, ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND REPORTING ............................................. 12 A. Roles and Responsibilities of Assigned Line Organizations ........................................................ 12 B. Mechanism for Authorized Reporting .......................................................................................... 12 VI. AARO PROGRAM UPDATES .......................................................................................................... 13 A. Analytic Division ............................................................................................................................. 13 B. Operations Division ......................................................................................................................... 13 C. Science and Technology Division ................................................................................................... 13 D. Strategic Communications Division .............................................................................................. 14 VII. WAY FORWARD ............................................................................................................................. 15 APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY OF TERMS ................................................................................................ 1607Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C) Date: 02/05/2025
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 18 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.