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A new, just-released report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) highlights the greater awareness of airspace and increased opportunity to resolve UAP events.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 required the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to submit an annual report to Congress on unidentified aerial phenomena. ODNI has submitted the classified annual report to Congress and published an unclassified annual report.

New reports

In summary, the report explains that, in addition to the 144 UAP reports covered during the 17 years of UAP reporting included in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) preliminary assessment, there have been 247 new reports and another 119 that were either since discovered or reported after the preliminary assessment’s time period.

Credit: Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU)

This totals 510 UAP reports as of 30 August 2022.

Additional information is provided in the classified version of this report.

Possible threats

An All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was established on July 20, 2022.

AARO and ODNI assess that the observed increase in the UAP reporting rate “is partially due to a better understanding of the possible threats that UAP may represent, either as safety of flight hazards or as potential adversary collection platforms, and partially due to reduced stigma surrounding UAP reporting.”

Shown at Congressional hearing, Video 1 2021 flyby movie showing a purported UAP.
Credit: Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee/Inside Outer Space screengrab

Given this increased reporting, it allows more opportunities to apply rigorous analysis and resolve events, the new report adds.

The document adds that UAP events continue to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, “highlighting possible concerns for safety of flight or adversary collection activity.”

Collection bias?

“We continue to assess that this may result from a collection bias due to the number of active aircraft and sensors, combined with focused attention and guidance to report anomalies,” the report notes.

An executive summary explains that there will be continuing investigation to gather any evidence of possible foreign government involvement in UAP events.

“We are confident that continued multi-agency cooperative UAP prosecution activities will likely result in greater awareness of objects in and across the air, space, and maritime domains, as well as the nature and origin of UAP in the
future,” the document states.

Urgent and critical need

In response, Ryan Graves, a former Navy F/A-18 pilot and Chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Integration & Outreach Committee, said:

“With 247 new incidents of UAP since the 2021 report, including events in sensitive airspace, it is clear that there is an urgent and critical need to improve aerospace safety by dedicating scientific research into UAP.”

“I am glad to see the government is taking the accounts of pilots and other witnesses seriously,” Graves said in a statement, “and I am heartened by ODNI’s acknowledgement of the profound, harmful effect stigma has in preventing the necessary data collection we need to understand UAP.”

Graves said that there’s need to “stop unscrupulous speculation, break stigma, and invest in science to address this national safety threat.”

To access the full, unclassified report — 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena – go to:

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf

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