All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
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Office overview
Formed	July 20, 2022
Preceding agencies	Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP); Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF); Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG);
Office executive	Timothy A. Phillips, Deputy Director (Acting Director);
Parent office	United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
Key document	50 U.S.C. § 3373;
Website	www.aaro.mil

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is an office within the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense that investigates unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and other phenomena in the air, sea, and/or space and/or on land: sometimes referred to as "unidentified aerial phenomena" or "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP). Its first director was physicist Sean Kirkpatrick, and its current acting director is Tim Phillips who reports to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks.

Established in 2022, AARO was preceded by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), a 2020 to 2021 program within the Office of Naval Intelligence used to "standardize collection and reporting" of sightings of UFOs. UAPTF was detailed in a June 2020 hearing of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The UAPTF issued a preliminary report in June 2021. NASA's UAP independent study team held a public meeting in June 2023 showing further UAP footage released by AARO.

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