AARO is not a bulk archive in the same sense as NARA. Its public value comes from case-resolution pages, official imagery, and current records or information papers.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office was established in July 2022 under the National Defense Authorization Act to serve as the primary U.S. government body for receiving, analyzing, and publicly disclosing UAP reports. AARO replaced the earlier Navy UAP Task Force and absorbed its ongoing cases. The office is housed within the Office of the Secretary of Defense and is required by law to submit reports to Congress on UAP activity.
AARO's statutory mandate covers reports from current and former government employees, military personnel, and contractors — not the general public. Civilian sighting reports go through separate channels, including the FAA for aviation incidents and civilian research platforms for general cross-referencing against the archive corpus.
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AARO's public-facing content is organized into three main categories: records and information papers, an imagery library, and case resolution pages. The records and information papers are formal documents that summarize AARO's findings on specific topics — the historical UAP reporting landscape, the status of legacy investigation programs, and official responses to congressional inquiries. These are distinct from case files and are written for a policy and congressional audience.
The imagery library contains the officially released photographs and videos that represent confirmed UAP documentation in the public domain, including the three declassified Pentagon videos (FLIR1, Gimbal, GoFast). Case resolution pages document AARO's official findings on individual incidents — whether a case has been explained (prosaic explanation found), unresolved (under investigation), or unresolved with no prosaic explanation confirmed.
A case marked 'resolved' by AARO means the office has identified a prosaic explanation consistent with the available sensor data and witness accounts. Resolved cases include incidents later attributed to weather balloons, foreign drone activity, atmospheric optical effects, or sensor malfunctions. A case marked 'unresolved' means AARO has not identified a prosaic explanation — not that the object was necessarily of non-human origin.
The distinction matters for researchers. AARO's unresolved cases — which include the three Pentagon videos and a growing number of post-2020 incidents — represent the evidential core of the modern UAP archive. These are cases where official analysis has concluded that the available evidence does not match any known technology, balloon system, or atmospheric phenomenon, and they form the basis for continued congressional oversight.
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Complete guide to AARO's 2024 Historical Record Report: the government's first systematic review of historical UAP programs, what it concluded about crash retrieval claims, and what the archive record shows.
AATIP director's first-person account of the Pentagon UAP program.
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