Document · D-OC-17
AARO's Consolidated Annual Report on UAP for Fiscal Year 2025
FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Department of War · Jul 21, 2026 · USA · Report
Original available
Official AARO URL (already in the site's data); the text was read on The Black Vault's copy on November 1, 2026.
- What it contains
- A 15-page report on the period from June 2, 2024 to May 30, 2025: 319 new reports (284 from the period and 35 earlier), of which 114 were resolved; with another 256 backlog cases, the cases resolved in the period are 370, all attributed to ordinary causes (balloons, birds, satellites, aircraft, drones, a rocket launch and a jet pack). It flags a Navy maritime case off Virginia with about 100 UAP in flight and two probably unmanned surface systems, still under review, and 50 drone incidents near nuclear infrastructure. It states that so far no evidence indicates that a government or private entity has captured or exploited material derived from UAP; of the 262 contacts received through the confidential channel, 7 warranted an interview.
- What it shows and what it does not
- It states that so far nothing indicates that the government or a private entity has ever captured or exploited UAP material and that AARO is defining a process to handle it should it come into possession of any: it contradicts, within the limits of what AARO has examined, the claims about possession of recovered material (G-001, G-025, E-026, E-041, E-060). Omega Click reported the part on the process for the material but not the sentence that precedes it, and added that the objects off Virginia allegedly cannot be attributed to any nation, which the passage of the report does not say.
- How it came to light
- Published by AARO. Omega Click summarized it in its video of July 27, 2026 and linked it (aaro.mil) in its article of August 17, 2026.
- The document
- Open the document (aaro.mil)
Sources
- AARO, FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (PDF) (primary source)
- Copy of the report on The Black Vault (PDF) (primary source)
- Omega Click, “100 UFO sull'oceano: La Marina USA non sa cosa sono” (YouTube, July 27, 2026) (video/audio, pro-disclosure)
- DefenseScoop, July 21, 2026 – the report and the episode off Virginia (press)
- The Black Vault, July 21, 2026 – AARO publishes the FY2025 report late (analysis)
On this site
People 3
Claims 10
- David Grusch: Claims that the United States holds material of non-human origin, including intact and partially intact craft. Disputed
- David Grusch: Claims that he was informed, in the course of his official duties, of a decades-long program to retrieve… Disputed
- Luis Elizondo: Argues that a secret program for the retrieval of non-human craft has existed for decades, called the… Unverifiable
- Luis Elizondo: Answers “yes” under oath to the question of whether the government has conducted secret programs to retrieve… Disputed
- Luis Elizondo: Writes that he is aware of several episodes in which the U.S. military and some defense companies retrieved… Unverifiable
- Luis Elizondo: Maintains that the three Navy videos were released by the Department of Defense, that the DoD made the… Contradicted
- Luis Elizondo: Recounts that the Navy videos were released after a change to the authorization form that allowed their… Contradicted
- Luis Elizondo: Maintains that the injuries associated with the spheres result from a kind of exposure to directed energy… Unverifiable
- Luis Elizondo: Confirms under oath what was written in the book, namely that government employees injured by UAP were… Unverifiable
- Luis Elizondo: Claims under oath that the United States possesses UAP technologies, as do some adversaries, and confirms to… Disputed
Inconsistencies 1
Official positions 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…
Timeline 1
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