2023 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D201P3)
AARO received 757 UAP reports between May 1, 2023, and June 1, 2024, including 485 incidents occurring during that period and 272 from 2021-2022 previously unreported. 118 cases were resolved as prosaic objects like balloons, birds, and UAS, with another 174 finalized as resolved
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 3 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 1, 2023 to June 1, 2024 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
AARO received 757 UAP reports between May 1, 2023, and June 1, 2024, including 485 incidents occurring during that period and 272 from 2021-2022 previously unreported. 118 cases were resolved as prosaic objects like balloons, birds, and UAS, with another 174 finalized as resolved to similar objects. Many cases remain unresolved and are under continued analysis.
Witnesses on file: observers.
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.