Documents / Official release
These slides from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) accompanied testimony by Director Dr. Jon Kosloski to the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. They were reviewed and released in full in February 2025. They chart UAP reporting trends from 1996 to 2024, showing that most closed cases were resolved as balloons. They also present analyses finding that the 2013 Puerto Rico object, the 2015 GO FAST video and the 2018 Mt. Etna object showed no anomalous flight characteristics.
UNCLASSIFIED ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE (AARO) UAP REPORTING TRENDS: JANUARY 1, 1996 – OCTOBER 10, 2024 REPORTED-UAP ALTITUDES 8.7% 8.0% 10.0% 25.8% 17.8% 6.1% 4.6% 4.0% 2.8% 6.1% 2.3% 3.3% 0.4% 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K 30K 35K 40K 45K 50K 55K 60K >60K CLOSED CASES RESOLUTION OUTCOMES Satellite(s), 1% Balloon(s), 75% UAS(s), 16% Other, 1% Aircraft, 1% Bird(s), 6% 2UNCLASSIFIED REPORTED UAP-MORPHOLOGY Orb, Round, Sphere, 31% Ambiguous Sensor Contact, 5% Other, 5% Lights, 46% Cylinder, 5% Disk, 1% Triangle, 3% Square/Polygon, 3% TicTac, 2% Mt Everest Commercial Air Traffic Weather Balloons REPORTED-UAP HOTSPOTS09Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 2/5/2025
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.