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AARO
AARO UAP reports, official UAP videos, unresolved cases, and Pentagon UFO records from the U.S. office that reviews anomaly reports.
Overview
AARO is the central office behind many modern official UAP and UFO imagery releases, including AARO UAP videos, AARO UAP imagery, unresolved UAP reports, and resolved case records. Related records are connected to their source videos, case records, and official metadata so readers can separate government records from commentary.
Key facts
- AARO receives UAP reports from U.S. military commands and other government channels.
- UAP is the official term used in many modern records that readers may also look for as UFO files.
- Many current archive videos are official DVIDS pages listed by AARO public imagery releases.
- AARO UAP videos and AARO UAP imagery include both unresolved UAP reports and records later resolved by official analysis.
- AARO records often distinguish resolved cases from unresolved or still-under-analysis cases.
Why it matters
AARO is a useful starting point for modern UAP and UFO records because many cases share its release format, status language, and links to official media records.
Related archive cases
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PR-018, Unresolved UAP Report, Europe 2024
The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of ten minutes and thirty seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2024. AARO assesses, with high confidence, that the footage depicts the presence of a physical object. The object’s morphological features, performance characteristics, and behaviors are unremarkable and do not warrant further analysis. AARO will continue to investigate this case should further information become available to enable a more conclusive attribution. This unresolved report contributes to AARO’s historical and locational trend analyses.
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PR-002, Resolved as Migratory Birds, Africa 2024
In 2024, the United States Africa Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and eighteen seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform. AARO assesses, with high confidence, that the objects depicted in the video are almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a group of migratory birds. AARO bases its assessment on the objects’ strong morphological consistency with other resolved imagery depicting birds and the objects’ flight behavior corresponding to known migration routes. An external Intelligence Community partner concurred with AARO’s assessment.
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Unresolved UAP Report: Middle East 2024
This video is provided for informational purposes only. Viewers should not interpret any part of the video description below as reflecting an analytic judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance. Viewers should not interpret the absence of a formal assessment as suggestive of anomalous characteristics. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office received a report from a U.S. military Service consisting of six minutes and forty-one seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform. The recording, captured in the Middle East in 2024, depicts an apparent thermal contrast within the sensor’s field of view. The area of apparent contrast exhibited characteristics that may be consistent with the presence of a physical object. However, due to the absence of corroborating telemetry or multi-modal sensor data, AARO cannot determine whether the observed signature represents a sensor artifact or a thermal emission or reflection from a physical source. The available data does not support a conclusive analytic evaluation.
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Navy 2021 Flyby video
In a an open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) before the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee on May 17, 2022, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Mr. Scott Bray shared this video of a US. Naval aviator encounter with an unknown object (UAP) in a fleeting pass. This video, captured by the pilot in the cockpit of a Navy fighter jet, demonstrates the typical speed at which military aircraft may approach an unknown object.
Related questions
What is AARO?
AARO is the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, a U.S. government office that receives and analyzes UAP reports. Many modern public UAP imagery records link back to AARO-related releases or official DVIDS records.
What does “resolved” mean in AARO records?
Resolved means the official analysis has attributed the observation to a likely conventional explanation, such as birds, balloons, aircraft, or another non-anomalous source described in the source record.
What does “unresolved” mean?
Unresolved means the available data did not support a final identification at the time the official record was released. It is a status about the evidence in that record, not proof of a specific origin.