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2024 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D201P14)

UFO Visual Sighting

AARO initiated a test event using a prototype sensor system called GREMLIN to detect, track, and characterize UAP. The system successfully collected data during the event. A 90-day data collection period is planned at a site of national security.

March of 2024
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 201
Source document: PURSUE doc 201 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 14 of DOD AARO Consolidated Annual Report UAP Nov2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated March of 2024 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

AARO initiated a test event using a prototype sensor system called GREMLIN to detect, track, and characterize UAP. The system successfully collected data during the event. A 90-day data collection period is planned at a site of national security.

Witnesses on file: AARO personnel.

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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