1980 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P4)
The advent of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) began in the 1980s and continues to the present, with increasing use for reconnaissance, surveillance, and combat operations.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 4 of aaro historical record vol1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1980s-Present and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The advent of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) began in the 1980s and continues to the present, with increasing use for reconnaissance, surveillance, and combat operations.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.