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Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................... 2
SCOPE AND ASSUMPTIONS.................................................................................................... 3
Scope........................................................................................................................................ 3
Assumptions............................................................................................................................. 3
GOVERNMENTAL CHANGES TO MANAGE UAP ISSUES............................................... 4
Establishment of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) ................................ 4
ODNI Coordinating with AARO and Multi-Agency Partners, Seeking Opportunities to
Assist in Collection, Reporting, and Analysis of UAP Incidents across the IC....................... 4
CONTINUED REPORTING AND ROBUST ANALYSIS ARE PROVIDING BETTER
FIDELITY ON UAP EVENTS, BUT MANY CASES REMAIN UNRESOLVED................ 5
UAP Reporting......................................................................................................................... 5
Partnerships and Collaboration ................................................................................................ 5
Flight Safety Concerns and Health Implications ..................................................................... 6
SUMMARY AND WAY AHEAD ............................................................................................... 7
APPENDIX A: ANNUAL REPORT ON UAP—FY 2022 NDAA............................................ 8
APPENDIX B: AARO ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE AND DUTIES—FY 2022 NDAA
....................................................................................................................................................... 10
APPENDIX C: INDEX OF KEY TERMS ............................................................................... 11
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) reporting is increasing, enabling a greater
awareness of the airspace and increased opportunity to resolve UAP events. In addition to the
144 UAP reports covered during the 17 years of UAP reporting included in the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) preliminary assessment, there have been 247 new
reports and another 119 that were either since discovered or reported after the preliminary
assessment’s time period. This totals 510 UAP reports as of 30 August 2022. Additional
information is provided in the classified version of this report.
AARO and ODNI assess that the observed increase in the UAP reporting rate is partially
due to a better understanding of the possible threats that UAP may represent, either as safety of
flight hazards or as potential adversary collection platforms, and partially due to reduced stigma
surrounding UAP reporting. This increased reporting allows more opportunities to apply
rigorous analysis and resolve events.
The establishment of the Department of Defense (DoD) All-Domain Anomaly Resolution
Office (AARO) should facilitate more coordinated UAP efforts, resulting in greater attribution of
UAP. While limited data on UAP continues to be a challenge, the establishment of AARO—
with its broad scope of authorities and responsibilities, and its replacement of the Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF)—will allow for increased coordination of efforts
against the UAP problem set. AARO’s authorities ensure that UAP detection and identification
efforts will span across DoD and relevant interagency partners, as well as the Intelligence
Community (IC), with the support and coordination of the National Intelligence Manager for
Aviation (NIM-Aviation). NIM-Aviation’s and AARO’s coordination efforts will improve U.S.
Government awareness of objects in the airspace and resolution of UAP events (see Appendix
B).
UAP events continue to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, highlighting possible
concerns for safety of flight or adversary collection activity. We continue to assess that this may
result from a collection bias due to the number of active aircraft and sensors, combined with
focused attention and guidance to report anomalies. AARO, in conjunction with NIM-Aviation
and the IC, will continue to investigate any evidence of possible foreign government
involvement in UAP events.
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SCOPE AND ASSUMPTIONS
Scope
This annual report is provided by ODNI in response to a requirement established in
Section 1683 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022,
Establishment of Office, Organizational Structure, and Authorities to Address Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena. Subsection (h) of that section states “the Director [of National Intelligence—
DNI], in consultation with the Secretary [of Defense—SECDEF], shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report on unidentified aerial phenomena” (See Appendix A).
In addition to responding to the required elements delineated in the NDAA, this report
details the establishment and coordinating efforts between ODNI and the newly-created DoD
AARO. This report provides an overview for policymakers of UAP1
that have been reported
since the 05 March 2021 information cut-off date for ODNI’s preliminary assessment on UAP,
published 25 June 2021. Per the NDAA, AARO delivers quarterly reports on UAP to
policymakers that contain greater detail regarding analysis and attribution of UAP events.
This report was drafted by ODNI's NIM-Aviation in conjunction with AARO. It includes
input from the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (USD[I&S]), the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National
Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the
National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, the
U.S. Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
the Department of Energy (DoE), ODNI/NIM-Emerging and Disruptive Technology (NIM-
EDT), ODNI/National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), and ODNI/National
Intelligence Council (ODNI/NIC).
Assumptions
Multiple factors affect the observation or detection of UAP, such as weather,
illumination, atmospheric effects, or the accurate interpretation of sensor data. Regarding review
or analysis of UAP events, ODNI and AARO operate under the assumption that UAP reports are
derived from the observer’s accurate recollection of the event and/or sensors that generally
operate correctly and capture enough real data to allow initial assessments. However, ODNI and
AARO acknowledge that a select number of UAP incidents may be attributable to sensor
irregularities or variances, such as operator or equipment error.
1
The FY 2022 NDAA expands the definition of UAP to include air, sea, and transmedium objects, and this report
maintains that nomenclature during the transition phase and stand up of AARO.
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GOVERNMENTAL CHANGES TO MANAGE UAP ISSUES
Establishment of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
The Deputy Secretary of Defense directed the USD(I&S) to establish an office with
sufficient scope, authorities, responsibilities, and capabilities to continue the UAPTF efforts and
meet the expanded criteria. AARO was established as the UAPTF’s successor entity on 20 July
2022. Per its mandate, AARO has the authority to coordinate UAP efforts beyond DoD and is
authorized to develop processes and procedures to synchronize and standardize collection,
reporting, and analysis throughout not just DoD, but the IC as well, with the support and
coordination of NIM-Aviation. AARO will coordinate with other non-IC agencies such as the
FAA, NASA, NOAA, and the non-IC elements of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
and the Department of Energy (DOE), as appropriate. The broad scope of authority granted to
AARO should enable them to leverage a multi-agency, whole-of-government approach to
understanding, resolving, and attributing UAP in the future.
ODNI Coordinating with AARO and Multi-Agency Partners, Seeking Opportunities to
Assist in Collection, Reporting, and Analysis of UAP Incidents across the IC
Since the June 2021 publication of ODNI’s preliminary assessment on UAP, ODNI has
developed strategic guidance to enhance further collection, which AARO and ODNI will
leverage to prepare, collect, and report on UAP in a comprehensive manner for the IC. NIM-
Aviation will remain the IC’s focal point for UAP issues, while AARO is the DoD focal point for
these issues and related activities. AARO will represent DoD to the interagency, Congress,
media, and public, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs
and the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (OSD[PA]). AARO’s mission
and responsibilities are contained in Appendix B.
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CONTINUED REPORTING AND ROBUST ANALYSIS ARE PROVIDING
BETTER FIDELITY ON UAP EVENTS, BUT MANY CASES REMAIN
UNRESOLVED
UAP Reporting
The ODNI preliminary assessment on UAP discussed 144 UAP reports and had an
information cut-off date of 05 March 2021. Since then, AARO received a total of 247 new UAP
reports. An additional 119 UAP reports on events that occurred before 05 March 2021, but were
not included in the preliminary assessment, have been discovered or reported after the
preliminary assessment’s time period. These 366 additional reports, when combined with the
144 reports identified in the preliminary assessment, bring the total UAP reports catalogued to
date to 510.
Since its establishment in July 2022, AARO has formulated and started to leverage a
robust analytic process against identified UAP reporting. Once completed, AARO’s final
analytic findings will be available in their quarterly reports to policymakers. AARO’s initial
analysis and characterization of the 366 newly-identified reports, informed by a multi-agency
process, judged more than half as exhibiting unremarkable characteristics:
26 characterized as Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) or UAS-like entities;
163 characterized as balloon or balloon-like entities; and
6 attributed to clutter.2
Initial characterization does not mean positively resolved or unidentified. This initial
characterization better enables AARO and ODNI to efficiently and effectively leverage resources
against the remaining 171 uncharacterized and unattributed UAP reports. Some of these
uncharacterized UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance
capabilities, and require further analysis.
The majority of new UAP reporting originates from U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force
aviators and operators who witnessed UAP during the course of their operational duties and
reported the events to the UAPTF or AARO through official channels. Regardless of the
collection or reporting method, many reports lack enough detailed data to enable attribution of
UAP with high certainty.
Partnerships and Collaboration
ODNI and AARO are committed to the responsible sharing of UAP findings with
interagency partners (such as FAA and NASA), other stakeholders, congressional oversight,
international partners, and the public. AARO is working closely with the OSD(PA) and mission
partners to develop an information-sharing and messaging strategy that aims to maximize
transparency, while maintaining appropriate protections of sensitive sources and methods.
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e.g., birds, weather events, or airborne debris like plastic bags.
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ODNI and AARO have maintained communication with our allied partners regarding
UAP, keeping them informed of developments and U.S. initiatives. The DoD and IC enterprises
are working collaboratively to report, identify, and resolve UAP events. Agencies across the IC
have established standard operating procedures that will streamline UAP resolution. For
example, AARO’s analytic methodology requires a whole-of-government approach to resolving
UAP events, to include analysts and science and technology specialists, to help resolve UAP
events.
Flight Safety Concerns and Health Implications
UAP pose a safety of flight and collision hazard to air assets, potentially requiring aircraft
operators to adjust flight patterns in response to their unauthorized presence in the airspace,
operating outside of air traffic control standards and instruction. To date, there have been no
reported collisions between U.S. aircraft and UAP. Regarding health concerns, there have also
been no encounters with UAP confirmed to contribute directly to adverse health-related effects
to the observer(s). Acknowledging that health-related effects may appear at any time after an
event occurs, AARO will track any reported health implications related to UAP should they
emerge.
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SUMMARY AND WAY AHEAD
UAP continue to represent a hazard to flight safety and pose a possible adversary
collection threat. Since the publication of the ODNI preliminary assessment in June 2021, UAP
reporting has increased, partially due to a concentrated effort to destigmatize the topic of UAP
and instead recognize the potential risks that it poses as both a safety of flight hazard and
potential adversarial activity. Whereas there were previously 144 UAP reports covered during
the 17 years of UAP reporting included in the ODNI preliminary assessment on UAP, there have
been 247 more UAP reports during the 17 months since. Combined with another 119 reports
either discovered or reported late that fell within the original 17 year period but were not
included in the preliminary assessment, a total of 510 UAP reports are currently catalogued.
AARO has been established as the DoD focal point for UAP. In an effort to gain
fidelity on the nature of UAP and the possible risk UAP represent, Congress required the
establishment of a central office for all UAP matters in the FY 2022 NDAA. That office
formally became operational as the AARO, under the USD(I&S), in July 2022. AARO is the
single focal point for all DoD UAP efforts, leading a whole-of-government approach to
coordinate UAP collection, reporting, and analysis efforts throughout DoD, the IC, and beyond,
to include other government agencies not in the IC, as well as foreign allies and partners of the
United States.
Coordinated efforts between DoD, the IC, and other government agencies to collect
and report UAP events have resulted in increased data sets, spanning multiple security
domains. AARO, in coordination with the IC, is focused on identifying solutions to manage and
alleviate the resulting data problem, including the intake, indexing, visualization, and analysis of
that data across multiple security domains. We are confident that continued multi-agency
cooperative UAP prosecution activities will likely result in greater awareness of objects in and
across the air, space, and maritime domains, as well as the nature and origin of UAP in the
future. The establishment of AARO and application of AARO’s new analytic process to this
detailed reporting will increase resolution of UAP events.
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APPENDIX A: ANNUAL REPORT ON UAP—FY 2022 NDAA
Subsection (h) of section 1683 (Establishment of Office, Organizational Structure, and
Authorities to Address Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) of the FY 2022 NDAA (Public Law 117-
81) listed requirements for an Annual Report on UAP matters. In the subsection, the term “the
Director” refers to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and the term “the Secretary”
refers to the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF). The text of the subsection is below.
(1) Requirement. Not later than 31 October 2022, and annually thereafter until 31 October 2026,
the Director, in consultation with the Secretary, shall submit to the appropriate congressional
committees a report on unidentified aerial phenomena.
(2) Elements. Each report under paragraph (1) shall include, with respect to the year covered by
the report, the following information:
(A) All reported unidentified aerial phenomena-related events that occurred during the
one-year period.
(B) All reported unidentified aerial phenomena-related events that occurred during a
period other than that one-year period but were not included in an earlier report.
(C) An analysis of data and intelligence received through each reported unidentified
aerial phenomena related event.
(D) An analysis of data relating to unidentified aerial phenomena collected through:
(i) Geospatial intelligence;
(ii) Signals intelligence;
(iii) Human intelligence; and
(iv) Measurement and signature intelligence.
(E) The number of reported unidentified aerial phenomena over restricted air space of the
United States during the one-year period.
(F) An analysis of such incidents identified under subparagraph (E).
(G) Identification of potential aerospace or other threats posed by unidentified aerial
phenomena to the national security of the United States.
(H) An assessment of any activity regarding unidentified aerial phenomena that can be
attributed to one or more adversarial foreign governments.
(I) Identification of any incidents or patterns regarding unidentified aerial phenomena
that indicate a potential adversarial foreign government may have achieved a
breakthrough aerospace capability.
(J) An update on the coordination by the United States with allies and partners on efforts
to track, understand, and address unidentified aerial phenomena.
(K) An update on efforts underway on the ability to capture or exploit discovered
unidentified aerial phenomena.
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(L) An assessment of any health-related effects for individuals that have encountered
unidentified aerial phenomena.
(M) The number of reported incidents, and descriptions thereof, of unidentified aerial
phenomena with military nuclear assets, including strategic nuclear weapons and nuclear-
powered ships and submarines.
(N) In consultation with the Administrator for Nuclear Security, the number of reported
incidents, and descriptions thereof, of unidentified aerial phenomena associated with
facilities or assets associated with the production, transportation, or storage of nuclear
weapons or components thereof.
(O) In consultation with the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the
number of reported incidents, and descriptions thereof, of unidentified aerial phenomena
or drones of unknown origin associated with nuclear power generating stations, nuclear
fuel storage sites, or other sites or facilities regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
(P) The names of the line organizations that have been designated to perform the specific
functions under subsections (c) and (d), and the specific functions for which each such
line organization has been assigned primary responsibility.
Notes:
1. Subsection (c), referenced in subsection (h) (P) above, is titled Response to and Field
Investigations of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
2. Subsection (d), referenced in subsection (h) (P) above, is titled Scientific,
Technological, and Operational Analyses of Data on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
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APPENDIX B: AARO ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE AND DUTIES—FY
2022 NDAA
Subsection (a) of section 1683 (Establishment of Office, Organizational Structure, and
Authorities to Address Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) of the National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81) established an office designated to
replace the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), later identified as the All-
domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). AARO was established on 20 July 2022.
Subsection (b) of section 1683 delineated that office’s duties. The text of these subsections is as
follows:
(a) Establishment of Office. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Director of National
Intelligence, shall establish an office within a component of the Department of Defense
and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to carry out the duties of the
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, as in effect on the day before the date of
enactment of this Act, and such other duties as are required by this section.
(b) Duties. The duties of the Office established under subsection (a) shall include the
following:
(1) Developing procedures to synchronize and standardize the collection,
reporting, and analysis of incidents, including adverse physiological effects,
regarding unidentified aerial phenomena across the Department of Defense and
the Intelligence Community.
(2) Developing processes and procedures to ensure that such incidents from each
component of the Department and each element of the Intelligence Community
are reported and incorporated in a centralized repository.
(3) Establishing procedures to require the timely and consistent reporting of such
incidents.
(4) Evaluating links between unidentified aerial phenomena and adversarial
foreign governments, other foreign governments, or nonstate actors.
(5) Evaluating the threat that such incidents present to the United States.
(6) Coordinating with other departments and agencies of the Federal Government,
as appropriate, including the Federal Aviation Administration, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of
Energy.
(7) Coordinating with allies and partners of the United States, as appropriate, to
better assess the nature and extent of unidentified aerial phenomena.
(8) Preparing reports for Congress, in both classified and unclassified form,
including under section (i).
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APPENDIX C: INDEX OF KEY TERMS
This report uses the following defining terms:
Range Fouler: Defined by U.S. Navy aviators based on observations of UAP
interrupting pre-planned training or other military activity in military operating areas
or restricted airspace.
Transmedium Objects or Devices: Objects or devices that are observed to transition
between space and the atmosphere, or between the atmosphere and bodies of water,
that are not immediately identifiable.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP): Airborne objects not immediately
identifiable. The acronym UAP represents the broadest category of airborne objects
reviewed for analysis.
UAP Event: A holistic description of an occurrence during which a pilot or aircrew
witnessed (or detected) a UAP.
UAP Incident: A specific part of the event.
UAP Report: Documentation of a UAP event to include verified chains of custody
and basic information such as the time, date, location, and description of the UAP.
UAP reports include Range Fouler reports and other reporting.