ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE

The Defense Department's

UAP Mission
Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.
Director
AARO is a uniquely-capable, Defense Department & Intelligence Community organization
that integrates operational, scientific, and intelligence capabilities to resolve UAP.

our mission
— Physical, technical, behavioral, and contextual
minimize technical and intelligence surprise charactetstics of phenomena, their composition, and
and reduce operational risks, by their movement
synchronizing scientific, intelligence, and
operational detection, identification, — Capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities of
attribution, and mitigation of unidentified, phenomena and any assessed technological gap
between phenomena and the United States
anomalous objects in the vicinity of national
security areas
— Indications and characteristics of hazards, risks and/or
threats by phenomena to the United States, its people,
its equities, and/or its instruments of national power
our vision
unidentified, anomalous objects are — Attribution of phenomena to natural and/or artificial
effectively and efficiently detected, tracked, sources
analyzed, and managed by way of
normalized DoD, IC, and civil business — Indications of foreign observation of and reaction to
phenomena
practices; by adherence to the highest
scientific and intelligence-tradecraft standards;
— The disposition of observed phenomena
and with greater transparency and shared
awareness
The potentially ubiquitous presence of UAP defines the national-security
implications and drives the broad range of stakeholders and demand for
ricorous scientific understanding of and intelligence on phenomena
US Territory & Operating Areas US Strategic Capabilities Foreign Territory & Operating Areas
— DoD observations and reporting of — Reporting on UAP proximity to — Reporting on UAP activity in foreign
UAP most often in the vicinity of US strategic capabilities and critical territory or operating areas limited by
military facilities and operating areas infrastructure primarily historical; source reliability
analysis limited by information currency
— Threats to the immediate safety of US and source reliability
citizens and Government facilities, — Consequence of such moderate-to-
across domains, is priority — Consequence of UAP in the vicinity of high, potentially leading to adversarial
strategic capabilities is high, potentially misattribution of UAP to the United
— Safety and security risks of UAP
threatening strategic deterrence and States
heighten US Government awareness safety of civil society
and drives research and mitigation
efforts —Allies and strategic competitors apply
— DoD strengthening observations and resources to observe, identify, and
reporting capabilities near US strategic
capabilities and critical infrastructure attribute UAP (open source)

as Key partners and stakeholders include as Key partners and stakeholders include as Key partners and stakeholders include
DoD, IC, Dal, NASA, FAA DoD, IC, DoE and NNSA, Doi, DHS DoD, IC, STATE, international partners
AARO leads integration of the Department's UAP operations, research, analyses, and
strategic-communications to deliver exquisite data, advanced sensors, sound analytics,
and shared mission awareness and ownership
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synchronizing and
sequencing Theater, IC,
and other capabilities for
optimized, cross-
functional UAP
detection, tracking,
revealing and exploiting
elusive and enigmatic
signatures through
advanced technologies
and focused, cross-
sector partnerships
delivering peer-reviewed
conclusions through
deliberate syntheses of
scientific and intelligence
method, tradecraft,
tools, and expertise
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driving shared awareness
across mission partners,
oversight authorities,
and stakeholders—
normalizing cross-sector
partnerships and
mitigation, and recovery building trust with
transparency

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Our mission success and our ability to contribute to
domain safety and national security depends on
observations and insights from across sectors

Educate Encourage Reporting Leverage Ow Expertise & Systems

The subject of UAP is laden with decades Historically, reticence to UAP reporting Persons informed about DAP and willing
of imprecise—and often sensational— has limited the Government's ability to to report have historically had few official
information guard against safety and security threats channels to submit observational data

Promulgating accurate information about Destigmatizing discussion about and We are working with military, civil, and
UAP, their implications to domain safety reporting of UAP is essential for tracking, industry partners to develop and field
and national security, and our resolving, and defending against such reporting mechanisms available across
commitment to resolving them is phenomena sectors
foundational to our partnership with
communities.
Government efforts to encourage military By leveraging our systems, we will be able
aviators and crews to report phenomena to quickly incorporate reporting into the
Sharing what UAP data is critically- have substantially increased the quantity corpus of data, to optimize scientific and
important for scientific and intelligence and quality of UAP data intelligence analyses, and to provide
analyses allows aviators and crews to feedback to the reporting individual
optimize the value of their observations and/or organization
and reporting of phenomena
What kind of information would be necessary and
sufficient for UAP analyses?

about the phenomenon about the observer

— UAP-event description or narrative — UAP characteristics, including physical — Observer's date, time, location, and
travel path for first and last observation
state (e.g., solid, liquid, gas, plasma); of the IMP, with as much precision as
description (e.g., size, shape, color); practicable
— UAP location relative to the observer, signatures; propulsion means; payload
with as much precision as practicable
— Observer's behavior toward the UAP
— UAP performance envelope, including
—Number of UAP-objects observed altitude and/or depth; travel path and — Sensors that detected the phenomenon
during the phenomenon and trajectory; velocity; maneuverability (e.g., visual, radar)
indications of intra UAP-object
coordination and/or communication — Any physiological, psychological, or,
— UAP behavior, including whether under other effects apparently corresponding
apparent intelligent control, apparent to the UAP observation
— Indications of advanced and/or response to observation and/or
enigmatic capabilities observer presence, and apparent — Observer's assessment of the UAP,
indications of indifference or hostility including the nature of the
phenomenon and whether it was
benign, a hazard, or a threat

— Identification of any other observers