Official position · S-019

The 2022 annual report counted 366 new reports: about half were attributed to ordinary causes such as balloons and drones, while 171 remained “uncharacterized.”

ODNI and Department of Defense · Jan 12, 2023

Sightings, video, sensors

What it denies and what it leaves open

It offers ordinary explanations for about half of the cases; for the rest it does not rule on the origin and does not deal with retrieval programs.

Sources

ODNI, 2022 Annual Report on UAP (archived copy, PDF) (primary source)
NPR, January 13, 2023 (press)

On this site

Documents 1

The ODNI 2022 Annual Report on UAP Original available

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