2017 UAP Sighting — AARO Records
Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb discovered a second interstellar meteor, CNEOS 2017-03-09 (IM2). This meteor was ten times more massive than the first, roughly a meter in size, and moving at 40 kilometers per second. It disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere.
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 March 9, 2017 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb discovered a second interstellar meteor, CNEOS 2017-03-09 (IM2). This meteor was ten times more massive than the first, roughly a meter in size, and moving at 40 kilometers per second. It disintegrated in Earth’s atmosphere.
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.