5 articles tagged “AARO”.
Hundreds of unidentified objects a year cross restricted airspace over American installations and go unattributed. The obstacle isn't secrecy or physics — it's a 2017 statute, a disputed list, and an office whose remit explicitly excludes drones.
For the first time, the House has adopted a comprehensive UAP records framework on its own floor — Archives collection, review board, eminent domain and all. Turning that into law is an entirely different problem.
The Pentagon's new annual report logs a single maritime UAP event — roughly 100 airborne objects and two apparently uncrewed vessels off the Virginia coast. It gets one paragraph, no date, and no explanation.
A fifteen-strong panel of scientists, chaired by Avi Loeb, has been asked to resolve the UAP question for the US government — with no budget, no clearances, and access only to material already made public.
The annual AARO report catalogues hundreds of fresh military encounters, resolves a chunk of them as balloons and drones, and quietly leaves a stubborn few unexplained.