AARO Finds No Extraterrestrial Origin in Hundreds of UAP Reports, With Most Incidents Explained as Drones, Balloons, or Satellites

To the point

All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, a Pentagon unit, reviewed hundreds of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings including many from the Middle East and found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin in a report covering May 1, 2023 to June 1, 2024 plus earlier 2023 and 2022 cases, detailing 485 new cases and 272 older reports with 57 from the Middle East, of which 13 were resolved as balloons, drones, or satellites, two Middle East cases were preliminarily assessed as possible satellite flares, 42 Middle East cases remain in an active archive due to insufficient information, globally 757 cases were reviewed with 118 resolved and 174 awaiting closure, most incidents involving ordinary objects such as drones, satellites, birds, or aircraft, notable items including a near miss offshore of New York described by a commercial aircrew with a cylindrical object, three reports of pilots being tailed by an unidentified object, and 18 drone sightings near US nuclear facilities, none showing a health threat or evidence that objects following US planes are from foreign adversaries, while ongoing research includes a cigar-shaped object over the Atlantic and modeling to refine assessments, and congressional hearings have discussed a white orb video rising from the Kuwait sea.