2014 UAP Sighting — AARO Records
In 2019, Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb discovered CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1), an interstellar meteor. The discovery was confirmed by the US Space Command with 99.999% confidence. The object was confirmed to have originated from interstellar space.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 12 of 23 F 0010, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated January 8, 2014 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
In 2019, Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb discovered CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1), an interstellar meteor. The discovery was confirmed by the US Space Command with 99.999% confidence. The object was confirmed to have originated from interstellar space.
Witnesses on file: Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb.
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.