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This is an unclassified slide presentation to NASA by Seán Kirkpatrick, Director of the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), released in full in February 2025. It covers UAP reporting trends from 1996 to 2023, typical reported characteristics such as round orbs 1 to 4 meters across, and two example cases: an unresolved 2022 Middle East orb seen by an MQ-9, and a Western US P-3 sighting judged likely commercial airliners. It closes with recommendations for NASA research and data review.
REPORTED-UAP ALTITUDES TYPICALLY-REPORTED UAP CHARACTERISTICS Mt Everest Commercial Air Traffic Weather Balloons REPORTED UAP-MORPHOLOGY A L L - D O M A I N A N O M A LY R E S O L U T I O N O F F I C E 2 UAP Reporting Trends 1996-2023 10.5% 9.8% 14.6% 30.3% 21.2% 6.8% 4.1% 1.1% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.9% 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K 30K 35K 40K 45K 50K 55K 60K 100K REPORTED-UAP HOTSPOTS Appearance Morphology Round, Atypical Orientation Size 1-4 meters Color White, Silver, Translucent Performance Altitude 10K – 30K feet Velocity Stationary to Mach 2 Signatures Propulsion No thermal exhaust detected Radar Intermittent, X-Band (8-12 GHz) Radio 1-3 GHz, 8-12 GHz Thermal Intermittent, Shortwave Infrared, Medium-Wave Infrared Orb, Round, Sphere, 47% Ambiguous Sensor Contact, 19% Other, 7% Lights, 16% Oval, 3% Cylinder, 2% Disk, 2% Triangle, 2% Rectangle, 1% Square, 1% Polygon, 1% TicTac, 1% Vector, 0%011 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C) Date: 02/06/2025
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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.