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US Report All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

The fiscal year 2024 consolidated annual report

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office of the Department of Defense issued its Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena under 50 U.S.C. 3373(k), covering reports from 1 May 2023 to 1 June 2024. AARO received 757 reports in that period, 485 of incidents within it and 272 of incidents from 2021 and 2022. The executive summary states that 118 cases were resolved and a further 174 later finalised, all to prosaic objects such as balloons, birds, unmanned aerial systems, satellites and aircraft, while the trend section gives 49 resolved and 243 recommended for closure. The report states that AARO had discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology, and that no observer reported adverse health effects.

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  • AARO received 757 UAP reports, of which 708 occurred in the air domain, 49 in the space domain and none in the maritime or transmedium domains; 392 came from the FAA (pp. 4-5).
  • The report states that "to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology" (p. 2).
  • Section III states that 21 cases merited further analysis by IC and S&T partners and 444 were placed in the Active Archive for lack of data (p. 5).
  • AARO received 18 reports from the Administrator for Nuclear Security and the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of incidents near nuclear infrastructure, all categorised as UAS (p. 11).
  • The report states that AARO launched www.aaro.mil with a secure reporting mechanism on 31 October 2023 and released its Historical Record Report Volume I in March 2024 (pp. 12, 15).

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