Department of Defense unveils new ‘one-stop shop’ for UFO reporting

The AARO’s new website at https://www.aaro.mil.

This site will provide information, photos and videos on resolved UAP cases as they are declassified and approved for release, the department said in a release.

The site will also have reporting trends, a frequently asked questions section as well as links to official reports, transcripts, press releases, and other resources, such as applicable statutes and aircraft, balloon and satellite tracking sites, the DOD said.

“The posting of the website is the next step in this process, in terms of ensuring that the public has information and insight into UAPs,” Pentagon press secretary and Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Thursday. “And so what you see today is what has been declassified to date.”

And this fall, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office says it will launch a secure reporting tool on the site for current and former U.S. government employees, service members, or contractors with “direct knowledge of U.S. government programs or activities to contact AARO directly to make a report,” the DOD said.

The reporting tool is required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, the department said.

Right now, the department is conducting reviews to ensure the reporting mechanism complies with federal laws.

In the interim, current service members, government employees and civil aviators are encouraged to use existing reporting mechanisms.

When it passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act in March 2022, Congress quietly gave the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base a role in the investigation of unidentified flying objects.

The act mandates a role for NASIC in the gathering of information about UFOs, or “UAPs” as they’re sometimes called today, a reference to “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”