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New in the library The PURSUE files The Department of War's UAP release, mirrored in full: the videos, recordings and images, each beside its case file.Documents2,872 records · page 39
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 2023 Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (case 23-F-0010) contains 2022 email exchanges between Sean M. Kirkpatrick, director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. The emails arrange a meeting at Loeb's home on October 3, 2022. They also include Loeb's Medium essays on interstellar meteors IM1 and IM2 and on the Ukrainian UAP report. In that essay Loeb argues the "Phantom" objects were probably artillery shells and the luminous object a satellite.
This memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Intelligence and Security is dated 2 June 2026 and signed by Jon T. Kosloski, Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). It gives the first-hand narrative of Witness 1, one of several federal law enforcement special agents who reported unidentified anomalous phenomena over two days in October 2023 in the western United States. The witness describes glowing orange balls that released red lights, followed by a silent, hovering, partly transparent object that looked like a car.
This unclassified memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Intelligence and Security, signed by AARO Director Jon T. Kosloski and dated 02 June 2026, presents the first-hand narrative of Witness 2. Witness 2 was one of several federal law enforcement special agents who reported UAP over two days in October 2023 in the western United States. The account describes three incidents: orb-like lights that released red lights, objects that seemed to imitate vehicles and reacted to pursuit, and AI-generated sketches of the events.
This memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Intelligence and Security, dated 02 June 2026 and signed by AARO Director Jon T. Kosloski, presents the first-hand narrative of Witness 3. Witness 3 was one of several federal law enforcement special agents who reported UAP over two days in mid-October 2023 in the western United States. They describe an orange orb expelling three red orbs, four red lights hovering over an airfield, and a vehicle that seemed to float off the road.
This memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Intelligence and Security, dated 02 June 2026 and signed by AARO Director Jon T. Kosloski, presents the first-hand narrative of Witness 4. Witness 4 was one of several U.S. federal law enforcement special agents who reported unidentified anomalous phenomena over two days in October 2023 in the western United States. The agent describes orange orbs that appeared to release smaller lights, lights forming lines and shapes above ridgelines, and a dark hovering object with a faint red light.
This memorandum for record, dated 2 June 2026 and signed by AARO Director Jon T. Kosloski at the Office of the Under Secretary of War, presents Witness 5's first-hand narrative of the Western U.S. Event. Witness 5 was one of several federal law enforcement special agents who reported unidentified anomalous phenomena over two days in October 2023. The account describes a hovering orange light, a large red orb that released smaller orbs, and a red and white light pair near a road. It also reports a faint formation of lights seen through night vision goggles and fresh scrapes in the ground.
This notional map from the U.S. Department of War shows four incidents involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States, seen from above. U.S. federal law enforcement special agents reported the incidents over several days in October 2023. They described a large "fiery orb" against a ridgeline about 1,000 yards away, a dark kite-shaped object with one red and one white light, and a translucent kite-shaped object. The document notes that all images were artificially generated and all locations are notional.
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.
These unclassified display slides from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) are dated 2023, carry the name of Director Seán Kirkpatrick, and were reviewed for release in March 2025. They define unidentified anomalous phenomena and summarize how the FY23 NDAA expanded AARO's authorities. They also lay out AARO's mission, its operations, analysis, science and strategic communications functions, reporting trends from 1996 to 2023, and the office's goals and priorities for 2023.
This is a draft paper dated March 1, 2023, by Abraham (Avi) Loeb of Harvard's Galileo Project and Sean M. Kirkpatrick of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). AARO released it in full in February 2025. The paper derives physics-based limits on how highly maneuverable UAP could be interpreted. It argues that supersonic objects would produce fireballs, ionization and radar signatures. It concludes that when these signatures are missing, the distance and velocity estimates from single-site sensors may be inaccurate.
This is a 2023 briefing for the Senate Armed Services Committee from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, presented by Director Seán Kirkpatrick. It was released in full in 2025. It covers UAP reporting trends from 1996 to 2023, typical characteristics such as round shapes 1 to 4 meters across, and two MQ-9 cases. A 2022 Middle East spherical object remains unresolved. A 2023 South Asia object with an apparent wake was likely a commercial airliner plus a video-compression artifact.
This unclassified briefing from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is dated February 2024 and was reviewed for release in 2025. It defines unidentified anomalous phenomena and sets out AARO's mission and vision. It also describes its operations, science and technology, analysis and strategic communications functions. It reports that only a very small percentage of UAP reports show anomalous signatures and that missing data leaves many cases unresolved. It also presents three example cases, including two resolved as commercial airliners with camera artifacts.
This is a Department of Defense trifold brochure from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). It is dated 2023 and was reviewed for release in March 2025. It sets out AARO's mission, vision and functions and defines UAP as anomalous detections that cannot yet be attributed to known actors. It asks current and former government personnel with direct knowledge of UAP programs to report them for AARO's congressionally directed Historical Record Report. It also explains how military personnel and civilian pilots should report sightings.
This is Volume I of the Historical Record Report from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated February 2024 and released in full in February 2025. It reviews US government UAP investigations since 1945, from Project SIGN and Blue Book through the Condon Report, AATIP and the UAP Task Force. AARO found no evidence that any sighting involved extraterrestrial technology or that anyone reverse-engineered alien craft. It says the claims come largely from circular reporting, and it names KONA BLUE as a proposed program that was never approved.
This release pairs two 2023 authorization memos. The first is a Department of Defense Special Access Program Central Office memorandum for record dated March 8, 2023, and the second is a matching ODNI Controlled Access Programs Central Office memo, CAPCO-23-003. Under Section 1673 of the FY2023 NDAA, both allow people bound by nondisclosure agreements to give UAP-related information to the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Those disclosures must happen in appropriate secure spaces, and the people making them must keep protecting classified information.
This is the Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office's Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, covering reports from May 1, 2023 to June 1, 2024 and released in full in February 2025. AARO received 757 reports, and every case it resolved turned out to be a prosaic object such as a balloon, bird, drone or satellite. It found no evidence of extraterrestrial activity and no reported health effects. The report also covers drone flights near nuclear facilities and the release of its Historical Record Report.
This All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) case resolution from the U.S. Department of Defense is dated February 2025. It covers the "Go Fast" FLIR video, which a U.S. Navy F/A-18F recorded off Florida in January 2015. AARO found the object was at about 13,000 feet and moving between 5 and 92 mph once wind is accounted for. It assesses with high confidence that the object showed no anomalous performance and attributes the apparent high speed to motion parallax. A technical appendix explains the calculations.
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.
This is a case resolution report from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated 20 March 2025. It covers infrared video taken on April 26, 2013 by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft over Rafael Hernandez Airport near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. AARO found with high confidence that the video shows two objects drifting at wind speed over land, not one object splitting or entering the ocean. It assessed with moderate confidence that they were sky lanterns.
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.
This 2023 synopsis from the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense covers Oak Ridge National Laboratory's analysis of a layered magnesium-zinc specimen with bismuth and lead bands. The specimen is claimed to come from a UAP crash around 1947 and to act as a terahertz waveguide. Microscopy, spectroscopy and isotope analysis found that its magnesium and lead signatures are terrestrial and that its impure, layered bismuth could not have worked as a waveguide.
This July 2024 supplement from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was released in full on 02/06/2025. It adds historical context to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's analysis of a magnesium alloy specimen that has been publicly alleged to come from a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle in 1947. AARO agrees with ORNL that the specimen's magnesium and lead isotopes show a terrestrial origin. It also agrees that the specimen cannot work as a terahertz waveguide. AARO assesses that it is likely a product of mid-20th century research on magnesium alloys.