The Pentagon’s Official Office of UFO Response has a new website where U.S. government and military personnel can report their own sightings.
The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) unveiled the new website on Wednesday (Aug. 30). According to a note from the agency’s director, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, de website will be used to inform the public of ARRO’s findings and to provide the public with a way to report sightings of UFOs or, as they are now called, unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
While the site is still under construction, it includes a section where the office “accepts reports from current U.S. government employees or employees, service members, or contractors with direct knowledge of U.S. government programs or activities related to UAP dating back to 1945 .” These reports will help the agency complete a historical record of such events as requested by the US Congress.
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The site also outlines the agency’s mission statement, which reads, “minimize technical and intelligence surprise by synchronizing scientific, intelligence, and operational detection identification, attribution, and mitigation of unidentified anomalous phenomena near national security areas.” “
In addition, the site provides a three-part definition of UAP, stating that they are objects in the sky that cannot be immediately identified; objects or devices that travel between different domains such as air, space or water; and underwater objects that are not immediately identifiable or related to the first two definitions.
This focus on objects in space and water is part of the reason the term “UFO” has fallen out of fashion and been replaced by the more all-encompassing term “UAP.”
In a set of slides It offers a more comprehensive overview of AARO’s mission and states that the agency will study “recovered enigmatic technologies”, leveraging cross-sector partnerships and the latest advances in theoretical and applied physics, [and] engineering.”
In July 2023, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and intelligence community told a Congressional subcommittee that the U.S. government is hiding the existence of a “multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program.” No definitive evidence for these claims has come to light, but several members of the US Congress have promised to get to the bottom of them.
Aaron was founded in July 2022 to “detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, areas of operations, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, if necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to the security of operations and national security,” said a statement from the Department of Defense.
Despite collecting hundreds of reports from US military and government personnel, Kirkpatrick stated during a speech public hearing in April that his agency has “so far found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity, alien technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics.”
In an FAQ section on the new site, AARO states that it uses “a rigorous scientific framework and a data-driven approach to better understand UAP” and “will follow the science wherever it leads.”
