576UAP0021.pdf

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Department of Defense 
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Oct 17, 2023

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UNCLASSIFIED I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is provided by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in response to a requirement established in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, Section 1683 (h), as amended by Section 6802(k) of the FY 2023 NDAA (as codified at 50 U.S.C. § 3373). The report covers unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reports from 31 August 2022 to 30 April 2023, and all UAP reports from any previous time periods that were not included in an earlier report. The All-domain Anomaly Re…

UNCLASSIFIED effects, such as parallax, that can cause observational misperceptions. Based on the ability to resolve cases to date, with an increase in the quality of data secured, the unidentified and purported anomalous nature of most UAP will likely resolve to ordinary phenomena and significantly reduce the amount of UAP case submissions. 3 UNCLASSIFIED

UNCLASSIFIED II. SCOPE AND ASSUMPTIONS Scope This consolidated annual report is provided by DoD and ODNI in response to a requirement established in the NDAA for FY 2022, Section 1683(h), as amended by Section 6802(k) of the FY 2023 NDAA (as codified at 50 U.S.C. § 3373), which states: “Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, and annually thereafter for four years, the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense shall jointly submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on unidentified…

UNCLASSIFIED Ill. UAP REPORTING IS INCREASING ACROSS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT (USG), AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IMPROVED ANALYTIC PROCESSES IS REVEALING TRENDS A. Overall Trend Analysis The report covers UAP reports from 31 August 2022 to 30 April 2023, and all UAP reports from any previous time periods that were not included in an earlier report. AARO received a total of 291 UAP reports during this period, consisting of 274 that occurred during this period and another 17 that occurred during previous reporting periods from 2019-2022 but had not been conveyed in previous submissions. Of these report…

UNCLASSIFIED Figure 1: Reported UAP Morphologies FY 2023 Ambiguous Sensor Contact, 5% Orb, Round, Sphere, 25% Rectangle, 2% Triangle, 1% Irreqular shapes, 6% Nat reported, 53% Disk, 2% } ~ { Cylinder, 1% Oval, 4% UNCLASSIFIED Figure 2: Reported Lights FY 2023 Lights , 21% No Lights, 79% UNCLASSIFIED 6 UNCLASSIFIED

UNCLASSIFIED Figure 3: Reported UAP Altitudes FY 2023 REPORTED-UAP ALTITUDES Figure 4: World Map Illustrating Geographic Distribution of UAP Reports FY 2023 ad ae a « — = a 7 UNCLASSIFIED