Document · 20 July 2026
Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (Department of War / AARO, July 2026)
Also known as AARO annual report 2025, FY2025 UAP report
AARO's annual report to Congress for June 2024 to May 2025, issued under the Department of War name and published on 20 July 2026, months after the statutory deadline. Every resolved case is attributed to ordinary objects, and for the first time the report states that no evidence suggests any government or private entity has ever captured or exploited UAP-derived material. It also records reports from sensitive sites that, if validated, could be "a currently unmitigated threat vector", and a Navy report of about 100 airborne objects off Virginia still under investigation.
Source: Department of War, AARO, July 2026; our copy is the original PDF, also mirrored by The Black Vault
Facts and claims
- documented Covering 2 June 2024 to 30 May 2025 (published 20 July 2026), the report counts 319 UAP reports and 1,870 in AARO's holdings. AARO resolved 370 cases in the period and “assesses that all resolved cases are attributable to prosaic objects such as balloons, satellites, birds, aircraft, and unmanned aerial systems (UAS)”, plus one rocket launch and one manned jet pack; a new modelling tool resolved 238 reports as satellite flaring. Nine reports merit further analysis and 191 went to the active archive for lack of data. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2025.pdf
- documented “To date, no evidence suggests that a USG or private entity has ever captured or exploited UAP-derived materials.” Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2025.pdf
- documented “To date, AARO has not received a UAP report in which a reporter described sustaining adverse health effects associated with their experience.” Two reports described electronic or avionic interference attributed to UAP near an aircraft; AARO had not determined whether the effects were caused by UAP. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2025.pdf
- documented Some reports from national-security sites and critical infrastructure were “suggestive of phenomena whose performance characteristics exceed the known state-of-the-art within a given domain”; no technical data came with them, and “If validated, the attendant phenomena underlying these reports may represent a currently unmitigated threat vector.” Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2025.pdf
- documented The one maritime case came from U.S. Navy assets off the coast of Virginia and “described approximately 100 airborne UAP and two, likely uncrewed, surface systems”; AARO was still investigating it with the reporting unit. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2025.pdf
- documented AARO received 50 reports of drone incidents near U.S. nuclear infrastructure, weapons and launch sites from the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, up from 18; “None of these incidents were reported as UAP.” Quadcopters were the most reported type, and 47 of the 50 occurred between 17:00 and 05:00. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2025.pdf
- documented Between 2 June 2024 and 30 May 2025, 262 individuals contacted AARO through the secure reporting mechanism for people claiming first-hand knowledge of a U.S. government UAP program; AARO judged 255 out of scope and asked 7 for follow-on interviews. It says no restrictions, “including non-disclosure agreements”, generally prevent it from receiving UAP information. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2025.pdf
Connected files
Programs
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (published by)
Organizations
- Department of War (Department of Defense) (published by)
More documents
- Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (DoD / AARO, November 2024)
- Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (ODNI and DoD, October 2023)
- 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)