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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued this unclassified annual report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena on 12 January 2023, as required by the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. It counts 510 UAP reports as of 30 August 2022. Of the 366 reports added since the 2021 preliminary assessment, 163 were initially characterized as balloons, 26 as drones and 6 as clutter. The other 171 remain unexplained. The report also describes the creation of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office and finds no reported collisions or confirmed health effects.
UNCLASSIFIED 6 UNCLASSIFIED ODNI and AARO have maintained communication with our allied partners regarding UAP, keeping them informed of developments and U.S. initiatives. The DoD and IC enterprises are working collaboratively to report, identify, and resolve UAP events. Agencies across the IC have established standard operating procedures that will streamline UAP resolution. For example, AARO’s analytic methodology requires a whole-of-government approach to resolving UAP events, to include analysts and science and technology specialists, to help resolve UAP events. Flight Safety Concerns and Health Implications UAP pose a safety of flight and collision hazard to air assets, potentially requiring aircraft operators to adjust flight patterns in response to their unauthorized presence in the airspace, operating outside of air traffic control standards and instruction. To date, there have been no reported collisions between U.S. aircraft and UAP. Regarding health concerns, there have also been no encounters with UAP confirmed to contribute directly to adverse health-related effects to the observer(s). Acknowledging that health-related effects may appear at any time after an event occurs, AARO will track any reported health implications related to UAP should they emerge.
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Report, from the odni collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 12 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.