SASC Brief 2023

ALL- DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED The US Department of Defense & the UAP Mission Seán Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Director 030 All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Chief of Staff, AARO Authority: FY24 NDAA, now codified at 44 U.S.C. 2107 Date: 2/6/2025 R eleased in Full: X Case Number: 330UAP000030 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 2/6/2025 ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE UNCLASSIFIED CLEARED FOR OPEN PUBLICATION APR 17, 2 023 Department of Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review UAP Reporting Trends 1996-2023 REPORTED-UAP ALTITUDES TYPICALLY-REPORTED UAP CHARACTERISTICS Appearance MorphologyRound, Atypical Orientation Size1- 4 Meters ColorWhite, Silver, Translucent Performance Altitude10k – 30k feet VelocityStationary to Mach 2 Signatures PropulsionNo thermal exhaust detected Radar Intermittent, X-Band (8-12 GHz) Radio1- 3 GHz, 8-12 GHz Thermal Intermittent, Shortwave Infrared, Medium-Wave Infrared REPORTED UAP-MORPHOLOGY Orb, Round, Sphere, 52% Ambiguous Sensor Contact, 0% Other, 1% Lights, 1% Ova l, 1% Cylinder, 1% Disk, 2% Triangle, 2% Rectangle, 2% Square, 3% Polygon, 5% TicTac, 6% Vector, 23% REPORTED-UAP HOTSPOTS 030 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 2/6/2025 3 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Middle East, 2022: MQ-9 observed apparent spherical UAP via electro-optical sensors  CHA RACTERISTICSPERFORMANCESIGNATURESBEHAVIOREFFECTS UAP characteristics and behavior consistent with other “metallic orb” observations in the region No demonstration of enigmatic technical capabi lities and no apparent threat to airborne- asset safety Case in “active archive,” pending discovery of additional data AARO uses active-archive cases for trend and statistical analyses UNRESOLVED, IN ACTIVE-ARCHIVE Middle East UAP, unresolved (U) 030 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C) Date: 02/06/2025 4 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED South Asia, 2023: MQ-9 observed UAP object apparently tailed by potentially-anomalous atmospheric wake  CHA RACTERISTICSPERFORMANCESIGNATURESBEHAVIOREFFECTS Phenomenon observed in other forward-looking infrared, full-motion video by same platform The “trail” appears to be cavitation, similar tothose caused d uring propulsion Visible trail is a camera-software artifact Video-compression algorithms overlay captured image on previous frame and resolve differences in the gray, infrared gradient Analyses of the morphology and traffic-control data suggest the object is commercial aircraft transiting known flight paths Analyses pending peer-review of mission-partners’ analytic findings PENDING PEER-REVIEW South Asia UAP observed with apparent wake, likely resolved as commercial airliner and video-compression artifact, respectively (U) 030 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 2/6/2025 U.S. Department of Defense UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Seán Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Director 030 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C) Date: 02/06/2025