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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 07_2024_Annual_Report

Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. · 2023 · 18 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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  • p. 11 …Starlink and other mega-constellations in low earth orbit. In many other cases, birds are commonly…
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Figure 3: UAP Characterization by Reported Morphology from May 1, 2023 – June 1, 2024
B. Reported Altitudes
AARO observed no new trends regarding operating altitudes of reported UAP (See
Figure 4).
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Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO
IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C)
Date: 02/05/2025

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