Pentagon UAP Office's Latest Report: 319 New Cases, No Evidence of Exotic Technology

The Pentagon's office for unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) has published its annual report for fiscal year 2025. According to AARO's own listing (opens in a new tab), the report is dated July 20, 2026. The Debrief (opens in a new tab) noted it arrived months late, only a few months before the next annual report is due.

What the report says

According to the report itself (opens in a new tab), AARO received 319 UAP reports covering June 2, 2024, to May 30, 2025. It resolved 114 of them. Counting older cases it closed during the same period, the office says it resolved 370 cases in total.

AARO's assessment is that every resolved case came down to ordinary objects: balloons, satellites, birds, aircraft and drones. The report says one case turned out to be a commercial rocket launch, and another was a person flying a jet pack. A new analysis tool let analysts attribute 238 reports to "satellite flaring," sunlight glinting off satellites.

The report also says AARO received no reports of health effects linked to UAP during the period.

The case that's still open

The report's most-discussed case comes from the sea. According to the report, U.S. Navy assets off the coast of Virginia described "approximately 100 airborne UAP" and two likely uncrewed surface systems. AARO says it is "actively investigating" the event with the reporting unit. The report doesn't say what the objects were.

What remains unexplained

The Debrief reported that close to 200 reports from this batch remain unexplained, mostly because of insufficient data. It also noted that AARO again found no evidence that the U.S. government or any private company has recovered material from UAP. According to The Debrief, AARO's total case holdings now stand at 1,870 since the office was created.

The bottom line

The official position hasn't changed: once AARO has enough data, cases tend to turn out to be ordinary. Hundreds of reports remain unresolved, though, and the Virginia case is still under investigation. Read the full report through the sources below.