2021 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D208P6)
The UAPTF has documented 11 reports of pilots experiencing near misses with UAPs. These incidents highlight a potential hazard to flight safety. Pilots may discontinue tests or training and land their aircraft when encountering these incursions, which may deter reporting.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 6 of ODNI UAP Preliminary Assessment June 2021, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 2021 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The UAPTF has documented 11 reports of pilots experiencing near misses with UAPs. These incidents highlight a potential hazard to flight safety. Pilots may discontinue tests or training and land their aircraft when encountering these incursions, which may deter reporting.
Witnesses on file: pilots.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: unresolved. 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.