2021 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P24 var 2)
A preliminary assessment of UAP was conducted in June 2021, directed by Senate Report 116-233. The assessment found that limited high-quality reporting hindered firm conclusions, but some incidents showed unusual flight characteristics. It also noted the potential for multiple ty
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 24 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated June 2021 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
A preliminary assessment of UAP was conducted in June 2021, directed by Senate Report 116-233. The assessment found that limited high-quality reporting hindered firm conclusions, but some incidents showed unusual flight characteristics. It also noted the potential for multiple types of UAP and possible airspace safety/national security challenges.
Witnesses on file: Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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.