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This Federal Aviation Administration record, part of a 2023 Department of Transportation release, logs a UFO/UAP report from February 4, 2024. Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center told Spirit 1337, an A320 flying from Cancun to Houston (IAH), about an unidentified aerial phenomenon. The object was less than 1,000 feet above the aircraft at FL320, about 110 miles east-southeast of IAH. The report describes it as silver and the size of a small business jet, and says no evasive action was taken.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023 as part of a Department of Transportation UAP file, is a preliminary operations report about a Delta 757 flight from Phoenix to Atlanta on February 14, 2024. At 0330 Central time, flying east at FL370 about 50 miles west of Huntsville, Alabama, the crew reported multiple lights orbiting well ahead of the aircraft at various altitudes. The crew took no evasive action, and radar did not detect the phenomenon.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, part of a 2023 release, preserves preliminary FAA operations information about an event on February 17, 2024. At 3:54 a.m. Central time, Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center relayed that United flight 2484, a Boeing 737 MAX flying from Phoenix to Newark at 37,000 feet about 20 miles north of Ardmore, Oklahoma, had reported one to five white lights of varying brightness. The lights moved vertically and horizontally, appeared and quickly disappeared, and other eastbound aircraft reported the same phenomenon.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023 in a Department of Transportation collection, logs a preliminary FAA operations report of UAP activity near Lamar, Colorado, on February 18, 2024. Denver ARTCC relayed that the crew of Gulfstream N151SD, flying from Las Vegas to Teterboro, saw three bright lights moving very fast with dramatic vertical and horizontal movements at FL510 or higher for 20 minutes. American 2514 also reported the lights. They did not appear on TCAS but were observed on ATC facility radar.
This Federal Aviation Administration preliminary report, released in 2023 under the Department of Transportation, covers a UFO/UAP event near Chicago-Rockford, Illinois at 0450 Central time on February 19, 2024. Salt Lake City ARTCC relayed that the crew of Air Transport flight 3498, a B763 flying from SMF to RFD, reported several lights moving and circling at FL370 or above. The pilot first reported them 20 NM ENE of MTU. Air traffic control radar did not detect the UAP.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023, is a preliminary FAA operations report of UAP activity dated February 20, 2024. It says Jacksonville ARTCC was told by American 2054, a B38M flying from Phoenix to Miami, of an unidentified aerial phenomenon off its left side. The flight was southeast bound at FL370, about 200 miles south-southeast of Crestview, Florida. The phenomenon appeared as three white lights making tight spirals at FL450, and ATC radar did not observe it.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023, is a preliminary FAA operations report on an event of February 23, 2024. Jacksonville ARTCC advised that the crew of N5430G, a Gulfstream GLF5 heading north from Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, to Newark, reported an unidentified aerial phenomenon. They were flying at FL450, 140 miles south of Wilmington, North Carolina. The crew described two white lights that appeared stationary at FL490 ahead of the aircraft. The object was not observed on radar.
This is a Federal Aviation Administration preliminary operations report, part of the 237UAP release, on UAP activity near Wilmington, North Carolina, on February 23, 2024. At 2139 Eastern, Jacksonville ARTCC advised that Spirit 1777, an A321 flying north from Fort Lauderdale to Newark at FL350 about 140 miles south of Wilmington, reported an unidentified aerial phenomenon at its 12 o'clock position. The crew described two white lights that appeared stationary at FL490. The object was not observed on radar.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023 and catalogued as 237UAP00616, is a preliminary FAA operations report of UFO/UAP activity near Presque Isle, Maine, on February 25, 2024 at 2:40 a.m. Eastern. Boston ARTCC advised that the crew of Sunwing flight 381, a Boeing 737 flying from Varadero, Cuba to Quebec City, reported multiple bright white lights at FL550. The crew said the lights appeared to move rapidly and change direction.
This is a Federal Aviation Administration record from the Department of Transportation. It gives preliminary information from FAA operations about UFO/UAP activity near Presque Isle, Maine, at 0240 Eastern time on February 25, 2024. Boston ARTCC advised that Air Transat 661, a Canadian-registered A21N flying from Cunagua, Cuba to Quebec City, reported multiple bright white lights at FL550. The lights appeared to move rapidly and change direction.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, part of a 2023 release, is a preliminary operations report on UAP activity near McCook, Nebraska, at 3:56 a.m. CST on March 2, 2024. According to the report, Denver ARTCC said the crew of NetJets 316, an E55P flying eastbound from Las Vegas to Omaha at FL410, saw rapidly moving lights that went dim and bright. Multiple aircraft reported similar phenomena, but the object was not observed on ATC radar.
This is a Federal Aviation Administration preliminary operations report, released in 2023 as file 237UAP00619, covering UFO/UAP activity near Oakland, California, on March 6, 2024. The crew of United flight 1986, a B738 flying from SFO to Seattle, reported a black UFO 100 feet off their 1 o'clock position. They were northwest bound at 8,000 feet, 2 miles north-northeast of Oakland. The report states that no evasive action was taken and that law enforcement notification was not reported.
This Federal Aviation Administration record is a preliminary report from FAA operations logged as UFO-UAP activity on March 10, 2024. It states that Dallas Love air traffic control tower advised that N628MC, a Pilatus PC-12, reported a black unmanned aircraft system at 7:45 PM local time. The aircraft was southeast bound at 1,500 feet, 4 miles northwest of Dallas Love Field. The Dallas Fort Worth Department of Public Safety was notified. The record gives no conclusion.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023 as file 237UAP00621, is a preliminary operations report dated March 15, 2024. It covers UAP activity near Junction, Texas. Houston ARTCC said several aircraft had reported an unidentified aerial phenomenon, believed to be some kind of rocket, that rose from below them to above and seemed to break up or disappear. The object was very bright and trailed smoke as it moved east at FL360 near the Junction VOR. No evasive action was taken, and no law enforcement notification was provided.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023 as part of the Department of Transportation's UAP files, logs a report from March 20, 2024 near Dublin, Georgia. Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center advised that the crew of N231TJ, a Gulfstream flying north at FL450, reported a UAP described as a group of five converging lights. No evasive action was taken, and law enforcement notification was not reported.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023 as file 237UAP00623, gives preliminary FAA operations information about a UAP report made on March 29, 2024. Houston ARTCC advised that Martinaire 685, a Cessna C208, reported a white UAP at its 12 o'clock position. At the time the aircraft was southwest bound at 4,000 feet, 22 miles northwest of Victoria, Texas. The report notes that the pilot took no evasive action and that law enforcement was not notified.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023, is a preliminary operations report of UFO/UAP activity near Orlando, Florida, on April 7, 2024. Jacksonville ARTCC advised that Spirit flight 2321, an A320 flying from MCO to EWR, reported five UFOs with white lights above the aircraft while northeast bound at FL260, 10 miles north of Orlando. No evasive action was taken, no other aircraft reported the sighting, and law enforcement was not notified.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released by the Department of Transportation, logs a UFO/UAP report dated April 14, 2024 near Rutledge, Georgia. According to preliminary information from FAA operations, Delta flight 1706, a B712 flying from Atlanta to Charlotte, reported a UAP at flight level 234 near the PHIIL waypoint at 0740 Eastern time. The pilots took no evasive action, and the record does not say whether law enforcement was notified.
This Federal Aviation Administration preliminary report comes from FAA operations and is dated May 11, 2024. It records UFO/UAP activity near Laramie, Wyoming. According to Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center, the crew of US Navy C-130 CNV3460, flying at FL240, reported an orb about 1 to 2 meters in diameter moving eastbound. The report states that the crew took no evasive action and that law enforcement did not need to be notified.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023 as part of the Department of Transportation's UAP files, gives preliminary FAA operations information about an event on May 16, 2024 near Palm Springs, California. Palm Springs tower reported that the pilot of N927PA, a Cirrus SR20 on a 7 mile final, saw a manned jetpack cross from left to right, northbound, at 3,700 feet. No evasive action was taken, and no law enforcement notification was reported.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023, is a preliminary operations report of UFO/UAP activity on May 18, 2024 at 1:50 a.m. near Austin, Texas. Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center reported that SkyWest flight 3260, flying from Phoenix to Houston at 37,000 feet, saw two maneuvering lights. The lights were 100 to 150 miles north of the aircraft and above its altitude. The crew took no evasive action, and air traffic control did not see the phenomenon on radar.
This Federal Aviation Administration preliminary operations report covers UAP activity near Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands, on May 26, 2024 at 0026 local time. Miami ARTCC said the crew of N513MA, a Gulfstream GLF5 flying northwest at FL430 from Port of Spain to Miami, reported an unidentified aerial phenomenon at the 12 o'clock position. The crew described it as a group of hovering lights and took no evasive action. Other aircraft, including FFT1745 and JBU2054, also reported the phenomenon.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released by the Department of Transportation, is a preliminary FAA operations report of UFO/UAP activity near New York on June 3, 2024. At 1400 Eastern, the Stewart federal contract tower reported a suspicious object floating southwest of the airport at 2,000 feet. The object looked silver and about 50 feet long. It stayed stationary for 50 minutes and then disappeared into the clouds. The report notes no impact to operations.
This Federal Aviation Administration record gives preliminary FAA operations information on a UFO/UAP report dated June 15, 2024. Denver TRACON said the crew of United 1835, an A319 flying from Denver to TYS, reported a 4-foot red and blue UAP below the aircraft. The aircraft was southbound at 11,000 feet, 10 miles south of Denver at the time. No evasive action was reported, and the UAP was not observed on ATC radar.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023, is a preliminary FAA operations report of UAP activity near Topeka, Kansas, on July 5, 2024. It says the crew of American 1913, an A321 flying from Chicago O'Hare to Phoenix at FL260, received a TCAS resolution advisory and saw two slow-moving light grey aircraft, followed by a single aircraft heading the opposite way at FL300. United 1687 also got a TCAS advisory in the area. ATC radar showed no primary or secondary returns.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023, is a preliminary FAA operations report of UAP activity on July 14, 2024. Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center advised that Delta flight 1480, a Dallas-Fort Worth to Seattle service, reported a UAP on the right side of the aircraft. The crew was westbound at flight level 360, 18 miles east of Pocatello, Idaho. The report says no evasive action was taken and law enforcement notification was not required.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023 as file 237UAP00634, logs preliminary FAA operations information on UFO/UAP activity near Wilmington, North Carolina, on July 27, 2024. Washington ARTCC advised that NetJets 627, a Cessna C68A flying from MMU to BCT, reported a white and metallic UAP. The crew was southwest bound at FL400, 20 miles northeast of Wilmington. No evasive action was reported, and law enforcement notification was not required.
This is a Federal Aviation Administration record released by the Department of Transportation. It gives preliminary information from FAA operations about UAP activity near Thibodaux, Louisiana, at 11:15 PM CDT on August 21, 2024. Air traffic control reported that Envoy flight 3680, an E170 flying from Miami to Oklahoma City northwest at FL340, reported an unidentified aerial phenomenon. The crew described four to five bright strobing lights maneuvering between FL350 and FL400.
This Federal Aviation Administration record, released in 2023, is a preliminary FAA operations report dated September 17, 2024. It says Los Angeles ARTCC relayed a report from public use flight TROY21, a Beech B350 flying from RIV to SJC. At FL200, 20 miles southeast of the Avenal VOR in California, the crew saw an unidentified aerial phenomenon pass 10 feet below the right wing. They described it as football sized and cylindrical. No evasive action was reported, and the report does not say whether law enforcement was notified.
This Federal Aviation Administration preliminary operations report, released by the Department of Transportation in 2023, is dated September 30, 2024. Los Angeles ARTCC relayed a report from Southwest 986, a B737 flying from San Diego to Oakland. The crew reported bright lights orbiting or stationary at FL600 off their right side while northbound at FL400, 16 miles southwest of LAX. The crew took no evasive action, and the report says the object correlates with the Starlink map.
This Federal Aviation Administration preliminary operations report was released in 2023 in the FAA's UAP records. It logs an event on October 2, 2024, near Akron, Ohio. Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center relayed a report from PSA 5656, a CRJ7 flying from DCA to MKE at FL380. The crew saw an unidentified aerial phenomenon of bright white lights orbiting or stationary at FL600. The report states that no evasive action was taken.
This is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission email thread from September 29 to October 1, 2015, released in 2023. NRC staff, including Region I Regional Counsel Brett Klukan and Raymond Lorson, discuss a possible drone sighting over the Pilgrim nuclear plant. According to the site security manager, Plymouth police found the object was thousands of feet up. The FAA and a Massachusetts State Police helicopter could not identify it, and a weather balloon was suspected. No SIDS report was made because the object posed no threat.
This is a 2023 Nuclear Regulatory Commission presentation by Daryl Johnson, a senior security specialist in NSIR. It proposes updating the NRC's flyover reporting guidance for licensees so that it covers Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. It cites the FY-2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which requires the NRC to report UAP incidents at facilities it regulates, and notes that NSIR sent AARO a response in June 2023. The presentation recommends asking AARO for guidance, writing UAP reporting guidance for licensees and issuing a Security Advisory.
This 2023 Nuclear Regulatory Commission briefing paper from staff in DSO/SOSB asked for approval to update security incident database flyover reporting guidance so it covers Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). It explains that the FY-2023 National Defense Authorization Act requires the NRC to send UAP and drone flyover data to the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) every year. It notes that the NRC has no guidance for telling UAP apart from drones. It recommends a separate UAP category, guidance for licensees and possible rulemaking.
This is the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Preliminary Assessment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, dated 25 June 2021 and prepared for congressional committees under Senate Report 116-233. It covers 144 US government reports from 2004 to 2021. Only one was explained with high confidence, as a deflating balloon. The report finds that UAP pose a flight safety issue and possibly a national security challenge. It proposes five explanatory categories and recommends standardized reporting, expanded collection and more research investment.
This is the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, prepared with the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) under the FY 2022 NDAA. It reports 510 UAP reports catalogued as of 30 August 2022, including 366 received since the 2021 preliminary assessment. Of those 366, initial analysis characterized 163 as balloons, 26 as drones and 6 as clutter, leaving 171 uncharacterized. The report also notes that no collisions or confirmed health effects have been reported.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense issued this Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in October 2023. It covers 291 UAP reports that AARO received for 31 August 2022 to 30 April 2023, bringing its total to 801. The report finds no adverse health effects, no confirmed foreign attribution and a continuing collection bias toward military airspace. An appended case resolution concludes that lights seen over western US military airspace in 2021 were commercial aircraft.
The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued this Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena to Congress, covering May 1, 2023 to June 1, 2024. AARO received 757 reports, and every case it resolved turned out to be a prosaic object such as a balloon, bird, drone, satellite or aircraft. The report says there is no evidence of extraterrestrial technology and no reported health effects. It also covers drone incursions at nuclear sites, the GREMLIN sensor and the KONA BLUE documents.
This Department of Defense biography of Timothy A. Phillips comes from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. It says he took up the duties of Deputy Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in October 2023 and is listed as Acting Director. The text describes him as a Senior National Intelligence Service executive with over 40 years of government service and a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, and it lists his education. AARO released the page in full in February 2025.
This backgrounder from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) sets out the office's mission, its vision and how it is organized. It was released in full on 3/20/2025 under case number 330UAP000015. The paper defines UAP, explains why they matter for national security, and describes AARO's four functional groups, its partners and how it tells UAP apart from known objects. It says testimony from over two dozen individuals has produced no verifiable evidence of programs to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial materials.
This AARO information paper, dated May 2024 and released in full in February 2025, explains how forced perspective and parallax can lead observers to misjudge the size, speed and direction of UAP. Using examples such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a featureless sphere and an airborne sensor passing over a river, it shows how moving observers can see stationary objects appear to move quickly. It concludes that single-observer reports remain valuable, and that observers should still estimate range, size and speed.
This is a case resolution from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated 8 May 2023 and released in full in 2025. It covers three infrared videos recorded by theater UAV operators over the Middle East and the Mediterranean Sea in 2022 and 2023, in which objects appeared to leave atmospheric wakes. AARO concludes that each wake was a sensor artifact. One object matched a military aircraft and another was identified as an Airbus A380. The remaining objects were judged prosaic.
This case resolution from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is dated 14 October 2023. It covers a report from a military pilot on 26 January 2023 in the Eglin Air Force Base training range off Florida. The pilot tracked four objects on radar and photographed one of them, which appeared as a rounded cone at 16,000 feet. With moderate confidence, AARO concluded the object was very likely a lighter-than-air object such as a commercial lighting balloon. It found the aircraft's radar failure was coincidental.
This is a case resolution from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated 17 March 2023, for the "Southeast Asia Triangles" case. Satellite imagery from 30 August 2017 showed six dark triangles in formation, and they were flagged as possibly anomalous and a possible risk to navigation. AARO's intelligence and science and technology partners compared the image with other imagery. They concluded that the objects were almost certainly static, cone-shaped fishing nets floating on the ocean, each about 11m by 7m.
This is the Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena from the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, dated October 2023. It covers 291 UAP reports that the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) received between 31 August 2022 and 30 April 2023, bringing its total to 801. It found no adverse health effects and no reports attributed to foreign activity. It concludes that most UAP will likely resolve to ordinary phenomena once better data is collected.
This is a case resolution from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated 8 May 2023, about a 2021 report from military airspace in the Western United States. Military personnel saw five equidistant infrared lights flying at a fairly constant pace and thought they might be an incursion into restricted airspace. AARO and its partners concluded the objects were almost certainly commercial aircraft on established air routes up to 300 nautical miles from the sensor. The page was cleared as unclassified and released in full in February 2025.
This is a public information trifold about the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), issued by the Department of Defense and updated in October 2024. It was reviewed and released in full as unclassified on March 3, 2025. The trifold describes AARO's mission and vision and gives its definition of UAP. It lists objects commonly reported as UAP, such as airborne clutter, aircraft, drones, satellites, space launches and celestial objects. It also explains how military personnel, civilian pilots and people with knowledge of government UAP programs can file reports.
This is a stenographic transcript of an April 19, 2023 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, chaired by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, on the mission and budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. AARO released it in full in 2025. Director Sean Kirkpatrick testified that AARO has found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity and that most reports resolve into mundane objects. He also presented trend data and two declassified MQ-9 videos, one of which was resolved as a commuter aircraft.
This unclassified briefing from the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office was given by Deputy Director Tim Phillips to the Defense Space, Geospatial and Intelligence Leadership Conference and was released on 2/6/2025. It defines UAP and notes that most reports lack enough data, while most that can be assessed resolve to mundane objects. It says a 2018 Mt. Etna object was likely a balloon. It also describes controlled tests at Camp Grafton, North Dakota, a Space UAP Tiger Team, and Starlink flaring as a cause of reported orbs.
This information paper from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is dated December 2024 and was released in full in February 2025. It explains how sunlight reflecting off Starlink and other low Earth orbit satellites produces bright flares and satellite trains that observers can mistake for UAP. It gives step-by-step methods for predicting flare windows from the ground and from aircraft. It concludes that lights reported by an airline pilot near Gallup, New Mexico, in October 2022 were very likely satellite flares.