2021 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D207P5)
ODNI published a preliminary assessment on UAP and subsequently developed strategic guidance to enhance collection efforts. This guidance will be leveraged by both AARO and ODNI to comprehensively prepare, collect, and report on UAP incidents for the Intelligence Community. NIM-A
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 5 of ODNI UAP 2022 Annual Report, 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
ODNI published a preliminary assessment on UAP and subsequently developed strategic guidance to enhance collection efforts. This guidance will be leveraged by both AARO and ODNI to comprehensively prepare, collect, and report on UAP incidents for the Intelligence Community. NIM-Aviation will continue to serve as the IC’s focal point for UAP issues.
Witnesses on file: ODNI.
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.