US Report Office of the Director of National Intelligence; All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

The fiscal year 2023 consolidated annual report

In October 2023 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense published the Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, drafted by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and ODNI and cleared for open publication on 17 October 2023. The report covered 31 August 2022 to 30 April 2023, during which AARO received 291 reports, bringing its total to 801. It found a collection bias towards restricted military airspace, no reported adverse health effects, and no reports attributed to foreign activity, and concluded that most UAP would likely resolve to ordinary phenomena with better data. An appendix resolved a 2021 case as commercial aircraft.

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• AARO received 291 UAP reports: 274 from the period and 17 from 2019 to 2022 not previously conveyed; 290 were in the air domain and one maritime.
• As of 30 April 2023 AARO had received a total of 801 UAP reports.
• AARO received over 100 reports from the FAA, mostly of unidentified lights without specific shape, none suggesting anomalous characteristics or a threat to flight safety.
• No encounters with UAP were confirmed to have directly contributed to adverse health-related effects.
• The "Western United States" case resolution of 8 May 2023 assessed five equidistant lights as almost certainly commercial aircraft up to 300 nautical miles from the sensor.

Documents

• Report Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office· 2023-10-25· 16 pp.