2020 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D208P7)
The USAF began a six-month pilot program in November 2020 to collect UAP data in areas where encounters were most likely. The program aimed to normalize future collection, reporting, and analysis across the entire Air Force.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 7 of ODNI UAP Preliminary Assessment June 2021, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated November 2020 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The USAF began a six-month pilot program in November 2020 to collect UAP data in areas where encounters were most likely. The program aimed to normalize future collection, reporting, and analysis across the entire Air Force.
Witnesses on file: USAF.
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.