2023 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D201P13 var 2)
The Joint Staff issued a GENADMIN message directing Combatant Commands and Services to report all UAP incidents, incursions, and engagements. Reports were to be submitted to Combatant Command Joint Operations Centers, Service Watch Centers, and respective counterintelligence elem
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 13 of DOD AARO Consolidated Annual Report UAP Nov2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated May 2023 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The Joint Staff issued a GENADMIN message directing Combatant Commands and Services to report all UAP incidents, incursions, and engagements. Reports were to be submitted to Combatant Command Joint Operations Centers, Service Watch Centers, and respective counterintelligence elements within 96 hours of the event. This directive aimed to improve reporting processes for UAP observations.
Witnesses on file: Joint Staff (JS).
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.