Bottom line: AARO’s Fiscal Year 2025 annual report documents a large case-processing operation, not proof of a single explanation for every report. The office received 319 reports, resolved 114 from that set, and transferred 191 to an active archive because the available evidence was insufficient for a reliable assessment.
The headline numbers
The official 14-page report covers events received through May 30, 2025. AARO says 284 reports described events within the reporting period and 35 concerned earlier events. It resolved 114 of those 319 and another 256 older cases, for 370 resolutions during the period.
AARO attributes all resolved cases to prosaic sources such as balloons, satellites, birds, aircraft, unmanned systems, one commercial rocket launch, and one manned jet pack. A newly deployed three-dimensional modeling capability allowed analysts to resolve 238 reports as satellite flaring, including current and older holdings.
The unresolved-versus-unassessable distinction
The active archive is not a confirmed-anomaly list. The report defines it as a repository for cases that lack enough data for comprehensive analysis. AARO says 191 of the 319 incoming cases entered that category pending better corroboration or future analytic methods. Nine reports were referred for additional work by intelligence and science partners.
What deserves follow-up
The report notes two descriptions of electronic or avionic interference near operational aircraft but says it has not determined whether UAP caused those effects. It also describes a maritime case involving roughly 100 airborne objects and two likely uncrewed surface systems off Virginia, still under investigation. Fifty UAS incidents near nuclear infrastructure were reported separately; AARO explicitly says none was reported as UAP.
Evidence-first assessment
Verified: the counts, classifications, stated resolutions, and analytic limitations appear in a government report released July 20, 2026. Not established: that archived cases display extraordinary performance, that reported interference was caused by an unknown object, or that AARO has evidence of captured UAP material. The report states the opposite on material capture: it says no evidence suggests a U.S. government or private entity has captured or exploited UAP-derived material.
official 14-page report