2022 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D207P5)
The Deputy Secretary of Defense directed the establishment of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as the successor to the UAPTF. AARO was granted broad authority to coordinate UAP efforts across the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and other agencies
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 20 July 2022 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The Deputy Secretary of Defense directed the establishment of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as the successor to the UAPTF. AARO was granted broad authority to coordinate UAP efforts across the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and other agencies like the FAA and NASA. The goal is to standardize collection, reporting, and analysis of UAP incidents.
Witnesses on file: government officials.
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.