2024 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D201P16)
The Department approved guidance on UAP reporting and materiel disposition for public release. AARO amplified this guidance on its website to increase awareness of how service members should report UAP sightings and handle recovered material. The goal is to improve data transfer
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 16 of DOD AARO Consolidated Annual Report UAP Nov2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated Spring of 2024 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The Department approved guidance on UAP reporting and materiel disposition for public release. AARO amplified this guidance on its website to increase awareness of how service members should report UAP sightings and handle recovered material. The goal is to improve data transfer to AARO for analysis.
Witnesses on file: service members.
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.