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2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Office of the Director of National Intelligence · 2023-01-12 · 12 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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APPENDIX A: ANNUAL REPORT ON UAP—FY 2022 NDAA
Subsection (h) of section 1683 (Establishment of Office, Organizational Structure, and
Authorities to Address Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) of the FY 2022 NDAA (Public Law 117-
81) listed requirements for an Annual Report on UAP matters. In the subsection, the term “the
Director” refers to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and the term “the Secretary”
refers to the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF). The text of the subsection is below.
(1) Requirement. Not later than 31 October 2022, and annually thereafter until 31 October 2026,
the Director, in consultation with the Secretary, shall submit to the appropriate congressional
committees a report on unidentified aerial phenomena.
(2) Elements. Each report under paragraph (1) shall include, with respect to the year covered by
the report, the following information:
(A) All reported unidentified aerial phenomena-related events that occurred during the
one-year period.
(B) All reported unidentified aerial phenomena-related events that occurred during a
period other than that one-year period but were not included in an earlier report.
(C) An analysis of data and intelligence received through each reported unidentified
aerial phenomena related event.
(D) An analysis of data relating to unidentified aerial phenomena collected through:
(i) Geospatial intelligence;
(ii) Signals intelligence;
(iii) Human intelligence; and
(iv) Measurement and signature intelligence.
(E) The number of reported unidentified aerial phenomena over restricted air space of the
United States during the one-year period.
(F) An analysis of such incidents identified under subparagraph (E).
(G) Identification of potential aerospace or other threats posed by unidentified aerial
phenomena to the national security of the United States.
(H) An assessment of any activity regarding unidentified aerial phenomena that can be
attributed to one or more adversarial foreign governments.
(I) Identification of any incidents or patterns regarding unidentified aerial phenomena
that indicate a potential adversarial foreign government may have achieved a
breakthrough aerospace capability.
(J) An update on the coordination by the United States with allies and partners on efforts
to track, understand, and address unidentified aerial phenomena.
(K) An update on efforts underway on the ability to capture or exploit discovered
unidentified aerial phenomena.

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