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A U.S. Air Force ISR crew operating over Syria under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE reported a solid, spherical UAP traveling at approximately 424 knots for at least seven minutes on November 9, 2023.

• spherical
• bouncy ball shape
• FMV platform

A 9-second infrared sensor clip submitted by INDOPACOM to AARO in 2024 showing an unidentified football-shaped object with three radial projections over the East China Sea; case remains unresolved.

• football-shaped
• tri-radial projections
• infrared

A USCENTCOM/AFSOC mission report documenting a series of anomalous light events observed on Full-Motion Video during a 20-hour ISR sortie over Syria on October 20, 2024, under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE.

• white light orb
• plasma
• halo effect

A 2020 CENTCOM infrared video from the Arabian Gulf showing an unidentified small thermal signature, submitted to AARO with a source-added annotation and released unedited as an unresolved UAP case.

• infrared sensor
• small thermal signature
• Arabian Gulf

DOW-UAP-PR38 is a CENTCOM-submitted AARO report of 106 seconds of 2013 airborne infrared footage depicting an unidentified eight-pointed star-shaped contrast anomaly over the Middle East, with no analytical conclusion reached.

• eight-pointed star
• alternating-arm morphology
• visible trail

A U.S. military Mission Report documenting a brief airborne observation of a possible UAP in the Arabian Gulf at 1258Z in 2020, during which the object was clocked at an estimated 321 knots before accelerating and turning east.

• UAP
• Arabian Gulf
• 2020

A two-event military MISREP logging a single UAP at constant 40 knots between FL160–170 and, nearly nine hours later, two possible UAPs at an estimated 278 knots that accelerated and turned south, both observed in 2020 over an operationally redacted location.

• multiple UAP
• constant velocity
• speed increase

A SHAEF file grouping wartime messages and memorandums documenting Allied aircrew observations of 'foofighters,' unidentified cylindrical objects, and blinking lights over Germany in 1944–1945, with repeated reference to the 415th Night Fighter Squadron.

• foofighters
• night phenomena
• cylindrical object

A USCENTCOM MISREP documenting a two-minute SWIR-only observation of a diamond-shaped UAP traveling at approximately 434 knots at FL200 over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024.

• diamond-shaped
• SWIR-only
• non-maneuvering probe

A 58-second Department of the Air Force infrared sensor recording of an unidentified area of contrast submitted to AARO in 2020, with no reporter description and no analytic conclusion reached.

• infrared
• area of contrast
• reticle lock

A U.S. Navy O-2 aircrew member filed a Range Fouler Reporting Form documenting a roughly 73-second TFLIR encounter with a round, IR-cold object over the Gulf of Aden on October 15, 2020, that made abrupt directional changes at low speed.

• round
• IR-cold
• Gulf of Aden

A 94-second infrared video submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO documenting an unidentified area of contrast tracked over the Arabian Gulf in 2020, with no witness description of any kind.

• infrared
• area of contrast
• Arabian Gulf

A 99-second infrared video submitted by INDOPACOM to AARO in 2024, with no accompanying observer description, showing an uncharacterized area of contrast held at frame center.

• infrared
• area-of-contrast
• Indo-PACOM

AARO's March 2025 case resolution concludes with high confidence that the 2013 Aguadilla infrared video captured two sky lanterns drifting at wind speed, debunking prior claims of object-splitting and transmedium ocean entry.

• sky lanterns
• infrared sensor
• Puerto Rico

AARO's October 2023 case resolution concluding, at moderate confidence, that a UAP reported by a military pilot near Eglin Air Force Base on January 26, 2023 was a large commercial lighting balloon.

• LTA balloon
• EO/IR
• radar

The FY2024 AARO consolidated report covers 757 UAP reports from May 2023 to June 2024, resolves every closed case to a prosaic object, flags 21 cases as requiring further analysis, and finds no evidence of extraterrestrial activity or foreign adversary breakthrough capability.

• orb/sphere
• unidentified lights
• cylindrical object

AARO's statutory FY2024 annual report logs 757 UAP cases for May 2023–June 2024, closes all resolved cases to prosaic objects, flags 21 for deeper analysis, and finds no extraterrestrial evidence.

• orb/sphere
• unidentified lights
• cylindrical object

AARO's February 2024 mandated historical record report finds no verifiable evidence that any USG program has recovered, possessed, or reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology, attributing persistent claims to circular reporting among a consistent group active since at least 2009.

• institutional review
• UAP retrieval claims
• reverse engineering

AARO's February 2024 mandatory historical review concludes, across all classification levels, that no U.S. government program has ever recovered, reverse-engineered, or concealed extraterrestrial technology or biological material.

• UAP
• reverse-engineering allegation
• material sample analysis

AARO's mandated 2024 historical record review of U.S. government UAP programs from 1945 to 2023, concluding no verifiable evidence exists for secret extraterrestrial technology recovery or reverse-engineering programs.

• USG investigatory programs 1945-2023
• reverse-engineering allegations
• KONA BLUE

AARO's 20 March 2025 case resolution report concludes with high confidence that the 2013 Puerto Rico 'transmedium sphere' footage depicts two sky lanterns drifting at wind speed, not an anomalous object.

• sky lantern
• infrared
• Puerto Rico

AARO case resolution report concluding that a 17-minute infrared recording at Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq on 23 October 2017 captured a cluster of balloons, not an anomalous object.

• balloon cluster
• infrared
• Iraq

AARO's 14 October 2023 case resolution report for the 'Eglin UAP' incident, concluding with moderate confidence that a military pilot's sighting of a gray cone-shaped object at 16,000 feet near Eglin AFB on 26 January 2023 was very likely a commercial helium lighting balloon.

• rounded cone
• EO/IR
• radar

AARO's February 2025 case resolution concludes with high confidence that the 2015 'Go Fast' UAP video shows an ordinary object at approximately 13,000 feet altitude moving 5–92 mph, with its perceived hypersonic speed explained entirely by motion parallax from the F/A-18's own velocity.

• spherical/oblate-ellipsoid
• FLIR
• Atlantic Ocean off Florida

AARO's unclassified case resolution report for the October 2017 Al Taqaddum, Iraq infrared footage incident, concluding with high confidence that the object was a cluster of balloons.

• balloon cluster
• infrared sensor
• Iraq

AARO's October 2023 case resolution for a January 2023 sighting near Eglin AFB, concluding with moderate confidence that a military pilot photographed a large commercial lighting balloon at 16,000 feet over a sensitive training range.

• lighter-than-air balloon
• EO/IR
• radar

AARO's February 2025 case resolution for the viral 2015 'Go Fast' FLIR video concludes with high confidence that the object's apparent speed was an artifact of motion parallax, not anomalous flight performance.

• Go Fast
• spherical
• oblate ellipsoid

AARO's case resolution for the widely circulated 2013 Puerto Rico CBP infrared video, concluding with high confidence that two slow-drifting objects were not anomalous and with moderate confidence they were sky lanterns.

• sky lanterns
• infrared sensor
• Puerto Rico

AARO Director Seán Kirkpatrick's April 2023 Senate Armed Services Committee briefing slide deck, presenting aggregate UAP reporting trends and two MQ-9 Reaper sensor cases, a still-unresolved Middle East metallic orb and a South Asia sighting likely resolved as a commercial airliner with a camera-software artifact wake.

• metallic orb
• spherical UAP
• MQ-9 Reaper

AARO public-release case file PR-018: an unresolved UAP video captured by US assets over Europe in 2024, released via DVIDS as part of AARO's ongoing imagery repository.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

A 1996 unclassified Air Force contract report developing a statistical methodology to model rare 'Mode-5' launch vehicle failures, sustained off-course turns, within the risk-analysis program DAMP, drawing on 1,186 historical Atlas, Delta, Titan, and Thor launches.

• Mode-5 failure
• launch vehicle
• risk modeling

A December 1947 Department of War file compiling internal memorandums and correspondence on flying disc and saucer sightings, treating them as a formal concern for the Air Materiel Command.

• flying disc
• flying saucer
• Air Materiel Command

A DoD video release accompanying AARO's inaugural public website launch, showing the UAP dubbed the 'jellyfish object' filmed at Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq, one of eight case resolution reports published on 2023-08-31.

• jellyfish UAP
• Al Taqaddum Iraq
• metallic orb

An excerpt from the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing (July 31, 1969) in which Buzz Aldrin describes three separate unexplained observations: an unidentified object near the Moon, interior cabin light flashes, and a bright light on the return trip.

• unidentified object
• lunar transit
• cabin light flashes

An archival Apollo 12 lunar-surface photograph, declassified by NASA, with five labeled areas of interest above the horizon where unidentified phenomena are visible.

• lunar surface
• above horizon
• five labeled areas

A modified archival NASA photograph from the Apollo 12 lunar landing site (1969) shows an unidentified phenomenon visible above the horizon, released as part of the September 2025 US Department of War UAP disclosure.

• lunar surface
• above horizon
• unidentified aerial phenomenon

A modified archival Apollo 12 lunar-surface photograph, released in the 2026 DOW UAP disclosure, showing an annotated area of interest near the right edge of the frame above the lunar horizon.

• lunar surface
• photographic
• Apollo 12

A modified NASA archival photograph from the Apollo 12 lunar surface landing site, released under the September 2025 DoW UAP disclosure, identifying two highlighted areas of unidentified phenomena above the lunar horizon.

• Apollo 12
• lunar surface
• 1969

An archival Apollo 12 surface photograph, released by NASA under the September 2025 DoW UAP disclosure, showing an annotated area of interest above the lunar horizon.

• photograph
• lunar surface
• above horizon

Excerpt from the Apollo 12 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (November 1969) documenting two crew-reported anomalies in lunar orbit: unidentified light particles observed through the Alignment Optical Telescope on Day 5, and floating debris illuminated by a tracking light whose operational status was contradicted by ground telemetry on Day 6.

• light particles
• lunar orbit
• AOT observation

A declassified excerpt of the Apollo 17 air-to-ground voice transcript documenting three mission-day intervals in which crew members reported unexplained luminous phenomena: a tumbling fragment field at spacecraft separation, a rhythmically flashing distant rotating object in cislunar space, and a brief surface flash north of Grimaldi crater on the Moon.

• luminous tumbling fragments
• rotating dual-flash object
• cislunar space

A DOW case record opening a formal investigation into a triangular three-dot anomaly visible in a previously public Apollo 17 lunar photograph from December 1972, with preliminary government analysis suggesting a physical object and the original mission film now in custody for full analysis.

• triangular formation
• three dots
• lunar sky

An excerpt from the January 8, 1973 Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science in which UV experiment co-investigator Dick Henry reports detecting an unexplained ultraviolet spectrum at high galactic latitudes that matches a hot star, despite the confirmed absence of hot stars in the field of view.

• UV background radiation
• galactic pole survey
• hot star spectrum without source

An email chain between a Defense intelligence analyst and an OSI classification officer approving downgrade of a SECRET//NOFORN Intelligence Information Report (IIR) summary to UNCLASSIFIED, covering a civilian's nighttime sighting of a large blue triangular UAP near a national security facility in the Pacific Time Zone in March 2023.

• triangular
• blue
• featureless

A declassified NASA audio excerpt from the Gemini 7 mission in which Astronaut Frank Borman reports an unidentified object, a 'bogey', to Houston mission control from low Earth orbit on December 5, 1965.

• bogey
• Low Earth Orbit
• 1965

A 1965 ground-to-crew transcript from the Gemini 7 mission in which astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell report an unidentified 'bogey' and an associated field of hundreds of luminous particles at an estimated four-mile distance in low Earth orbit.

• particle-swarm
• discrete-bogey
• low-earth-orbit

A USCENTCOM mission report from the 482nd Attack Squadron documenting a brief, uncharacterized observation of a single UAP/UAV flying west-to-east near Baghdad at FL180 during a December 2022 ISR mission under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE.

• UAP/UAV
• infrared/FMV
• Iraq

Gerald K.

The CIA's Robertson Panel, five scientists convened by the Office of Scientific Intelligence over five days in January 1953, reviewed Air Force UFO case files and unanimously found no direct national-security threat, while recommending a public educational campaign to drain the flood of low-quality sighting reports overloading military communication channels.

• nocturnal lights
• Foo Fighters
• radar tracks

A USCENTCOM/AFSOC mission report documenting an airborne infrared and FMV sensor observation of an unidentified, apparently circular object executing multiple 90-degree turns at ~80 MPH just above the ocean surface near Greece on 27 October 2023.

• circular UAP
• FMV sensor
• infrared sensor

MISREP 9329374 is a USCENTCOM ISR mission report documenting a three-minute crew observation of a seemingly circular UAP executing sharp 90-degree turns at approximately 80 mph just above the Aegean Sea surface on October 27, 2023.

• circular
• FMV
• Aegean Sea

A U.S. military operator filed a standardized Mission Report documenting a single transiting UAP over the Persian Gulf on August 8, 2020, with no mission impact and degraded full-motion video collection due to cloud cover.

• transiting
• Persian Gulf
• 2020