Official position · S-046
The consolidated FY2025 report attributes every resolved case to ordinary causes, again rejects the claim that the government possesses recovered UAP materials, and reports that, of the 262 reports from people who say they have direct knowledge of government programs, 255 were out of scope and 7 were selected for interviews. AARO is nevertheless preparing procedures for the eventuality that such materials come into the government's possession.
AARO (Department of War) · Jul 21, 2026
Materials and metamaterials
What it denies and what it leaves open
It rejects the claims about recovered materials on the basis of what AARO has examined; it does not say what the 7 interviews with alleged direct witnesses produced and leaves the unresolved cases open, such as the roughly 100 UAP reported by the Navy off Virginia.
- Original words
should such materials ever come into the possession of the USG
- Who disputes it
- Grusch maintains that the government is aware of several dozen cases of non-human biological material and that some holdings were moved; Jay Stratton claims that the government and contractors possess craft of non-human origin.
- Concerns
- David Grusch, Luis Elizondo, Jay Stratton
Sources
- AARO, FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (PDF) (primary source)
- AARO, FY2025 annual report (PDF copy on The Black Vault) (primary source)
- DefenseScoop, July 21, 2026 (press)
- The Black Vault, July 21, 2026: AARO's FY2025 report (analysis)
On this site
People 3
Claims 2
- David Grusch: Claims that several of his colleagues were physically injured, both by UAPs and by people, and that what he… Unverifiable
- Dylan Borland: Claims under oath that, a few years after a triangle sighting at the Langley base in 2012, through an… Unverifiable
Documents 2
- The Joint Staff's procedures for reporting UAP and handing material over to AARO (May 19, 2023) Original available
- AARO's Consolidated Annual Report on UAP for Fiscal Year 2025 Original available
Cases 1
Where the claims come from 6
- The United States holds intact or partially intact craft of non-human origin, the product of a retrieval…
- Non-human biological remains, that is, bodies or “biologics,” were recovered together with the craft.
- Lockheed Martin holds material of non-human origin and tried to transfer it to the AAWSAP program and to…
- The United States has been engaged for decades in a secret “cold war” with rival powers, in particular…
- A special access hangar was built at Naval Air Station Patuxent River to receive the non-human material to…
- The reverse engineering of recovered craft has contributed to the development of U.S. aerospace and military…
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