All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

Current official US government office for investigating UAP across all domains — air, sea, space, and subsurface. Established by the National Defense Authorization Act. Responsible for compiling historical UAP program records and coordinating with the intelligence community and Congress.

AARO was formally established in July 2022 as the successor to the UAP Task Force. The office is led by a Director who reports to the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence. AARO has authority to access classified programs across the intelligence community related to UAP. In 2024, AARO published its Historical Record Report, which reviewed government UAP programs from 1945 to the present. The report concluded it had found no evidence of programs involving the retrieval or reverse-engineering of non-human spacecraft. This conclusion was immediately contested by former intelligence official David Grusch, who had testified to Congress that such programs existed. AAROhas a secure mechanism for intelligence community personnel to report UAP-related information. The office tracks UAP incidents across military domains and shares information with US allies through established intelligence-sharing frameworks.