Document · 14 November 2024
Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (DoD / AARO, November 2024)
Also known as AARO annual report 2024, FY2024 UAP report
AARO's annual report to Congress for May 2023 to June 2024, released on 14 November 2024 with a press briefing by its director, Jon Kosloski. It counts 757 new reports, resolves every closed case to ordinary objects, states that AARO has found no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology, and notes 21 cases that merit further analysis. A section headed “AARO Possesses No Data to Indicate the Capture or Exploitation of UAP” says AARO is formalising a process should UAP material ever be captured.
Source: Department of Defense, AARO, November 2024 (also posted by ODNI)
Facts and claims
- documented Covering 1 May 2023 to 1 June 2024, the report counts 757 UAP reports (485 from the period, 272 from 2021–2022 reported late) and 1,652 in total as of 24 October 2024. AARO resolved 118 cases, “all of which resolved to prosaic objects such as various types of balloons, birds, and unmanned aerial systems (UAS)”, and 174 more queued for closure resolved the same way. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2024.pdf
- documented “It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.” Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2024.pdf
- documented Military aircrews filed two reports of flight-safety concerns and three describing pilots “being trailed or shadowed by UAP”; AARO has “no indication or confirmation that these activities are attributable to foreign adversaries.” One commercial aircrew reported a near miss with a “cylindrical object” off the coast of New York. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2024.pdf
- documented The National Nuclear Security Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission passed AARO 18 reports of incidents near U.S. nuclear infrastructure, weapons and launch sites, and “categorized all of these incidents as UAS”, among them six consecutive nights of drone flyovers at the BWXT fuel facility in Lynchburg, Virginia, in October 2023. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2024.pdf
- documented “AARO is authorized by law to receive all UAP related information including any classified national security information involving military intelligence or intelligence related activities at all levels of classification, regardless of any restrictive access controls, special access controls, or compartmented special access programs.” Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2024.pdf
Connected files
Programs
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (published by)
Mentioned in this file
- Jon T. Kosloski (Person)
- Department of War (Department of Defense) (Organization)
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Organization)
More documents
- Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (ODNI and DoD, October 2023)
- Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (Department of War / AARO, July 2026)
- AARO case slides for the Senate Armed Services subcommittee (19 November 2024)
- AARO briefing slides to the Senate Armed Services subcommittee (19 April 2023)
- Deputy Secretary of Defense memorandum: Establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (15 July 2022)
- AARO case resolution: "Go Fast" (2025)