The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the official U.S. government body for receiving UAP reports from current and former government, military, and contractor personnel. Civilians can submit sightings through the Now Declassified community sighting page, which cross-references reports against the indexed archive corpus.
AARO's statutory mandate covers reports from current or former U.S. government employees, military personnel, and government contractors. This scope is deliberate — the office exists primarily to capture information currently inside classified programs or military operational environments, not to aggregate public sighting reports. If you are a current or former government employee, military member, or contractor with information about a UAP incident or a classified program, AARO is the correct reporting channel.
AARO is required by law to protect the identities of individuals who report through proper channels. The historical stigma around UAP reporting in military environments has been formally addressed — AARO was created in part to provide a safe reporting channel for personnel who previously felt they could not come forward. Its secure reporting pathway is available on the official AARO website.
The quality of any UAP report is almost entirely determined by the information captured in the first few minutes. Memory degrades rapidly for unusual events, and critical details — exact time, precise location, specific behavior, duration — are most accurate immediately after the experience. Write down or voice-record your observations before discussing the event with other witnesses, because shared discussion can inadvertently merge or modify individual memories.
Key information to capture immediately: exact date, time, and duration; precise location (GPS coordinates from your phone are ideal); weather conditions; number of independent witnesses and their viewing positions; the object's apparent shape, color, and size relative to known reference points such as the moon or nearby buildings; all observed movements including trajectory, speed changes, and acceleration patterns; any sounds (or notable absence of sound); and any effects on electronics or animals. Photographs and video should be taken immediately even if quality is poor — the GPS and timestamp metadata embedded in phone photos can be as valuable as the image itself.
Civilian witnesses can submit a community sighting report through Now Declassified's sightings page. Reports are reviewed and cross-referenced against the incidents in the indexed archive corpus. If your sighting matches the characteristics of an existing indexed case, the match is returned along with the official source documentation for that case. The Match My Sighting tool performs an automated version of this cross-reference using shape, behavior, region, and altitude as matching criteria.
The Now Declassified sighting database contributes to the broader citizen science picture of UAP distribution over time. Approved sightings appear in the public gallery and are available for other researchers to review. If your sighting is sufficiently unusual and well-documented, the archive team may reach out to discuss including it in the index or forwarding relevant details to appropriate research channels.