07 2024 Annual Report
AI Summary
UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Information Cut Off: June 1, 2024 07 All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Chief of Staff, AARO Authority: FY24 NDAA, now codified at 44 U.S.C. 2107 Date: 02/05/2025 Released in Full: ____x___; Released in Part __ Case Number 330UAP000007 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDA
Key Findings
NARA NAID 493468580 · RG 615
OCR Text
UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Information Cut Off: June 1, 2024 07 All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Chief of Staff, AARO Authority: FY24 NDAA, now codified at 44 U.S.C. 2107 Date: 02/05/2025 Released in Full: ____x___; Released in Part __ Case Number 330UAP000007 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C) Date: 02/05/2025 UNCLASSIFIED 1 UNCLASSIFIED Table of Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................... 2 II. SCOPE .................................................................................................................................................... 2 III. OVERVIEW OF REPORTS .................................................................................................................. 4 A. Overall Trend Analysis ..................................................................................................................... 4 B. Diversification and Sources of Reporting ....................................................................................... 6 IV. OVERVIEW OF ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS .................................................................................. 7 A. Reported Morphologies .................................................................................................................... 7 B. Reported Altitudes ............................................................................................................................ 8 C. Geographic Trends ........................................................................................................................... 9 D. Notable Trends Regarding Prosaic Objects ................................................................................. 10 E. Flight Safety Issues .......................................................................................................................... 11 F. UAS Observations Reported Near U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure, Weapons, and Launch Sites 11 G. AARO Possesses No Data to Indicate the Capture or Exploitation of UAP .............................. 11 H. No Health/Physiological Impacts from UAP Incidents Reported ............................................... 11 V. ENGAGEMENT, ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND REPORTING ............................................. 12 A. Roles and Responsibilities of Assigned Line Organizations ........................................................ 12 B. Mechanism for Authorized Reporting .......................................................................................... 12 VI. AARO PROGRAM UPDATES .......................................................................................................... 13 A. Analytic Division ............................................................................................................................. 13 B. Operations Division ......................................................................................................................... 13 C. Science and Technology Division ................................................................................................... 13 D. Strategic Communications Division .............................................................................................. 14 VII. WAY FORWARD ............................................................................................................................. 15 APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY OF TERMS ................................................................................................ 16 07 Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C) Date: 02/05/2025 UNCLASSIFIED 2 UNCLASSIFIED I.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is provided by the Department of Defense (DoD) in response to a requirement established in 50 U.S. Code [U.S.C.] 3373(k). This report covers unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reports from May 1, 2023 to June 1, 2024 and all UAP reports from any previous time periods that were not included in an earlier report. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) received 757 UAP reports during this period; 485 of these reports featured UAP incidents that occurred during the reporting period. The remaining 272 reports featured UAP incidents that occurred between 2021 and 2022 but were not reported to AARO until this reporting period and consequently were not included in previous annual UAP reports. AARO resolved 118 cases during the reporting period, all of which resolved to prosaic objects such as various types of balloons, birds, and unmanned aerial systems (UAS). As of May 31, 2024, AARO has an additional 174 cases …
Metadata
- Agency
- Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. (09/18/1947 - )
- Classification
- UNCLASSIFIED
- Department
- Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. (09/18/1947 - )
- Catalog source
- View NARA catalog record
NARA Source
- NAID
- 493468580
- File
- 07_2024_Annual_Report.pdf
- Type
- application/pdf
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