Case File · AARO · AATIP/UAPTF Era (2017-2021) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

2021 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P2)

UFO Visual Sighting

A Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena was completed in June 2021. The document does not provide details on specific observations or events related to this assessment, only its timeframe.

June 2021
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 214
Source document: PURSUE doc 214 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 2 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, 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: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena was completed in June 2021. The document does not provide details on specific observations or events related to this assessment, only its timeframe.

Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.

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.

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