AARO Unresolved UAP Reports

27 unresolved UAP reports were submitted to AARO (the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) by U.S. military commands between 2013 and 2026, and released through the Trump PURSUE disclosure on May 8, 2026. All 27 tie at score 66 on the Anomalousness Index - the densest single cluster in the archive, sitting directly behind Gemini 7's 72. Here is the geographic distribution, the sensor modalities, and the standouts.

Files: 27 Score: 66 (all) Submitting commands: mostly CENTCOM Date span: 2013 - 2026 Disposition: AARO unresolved, no formal review

What AARO actually is

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the Department of Defense organization that receives, catalogues, and reviews Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) reports submitted by U.S. military components - combatant commands like CENTCOM and Indo-Pacom, the military services, and Department-level offices. It was established in 2022 and is the successor to a series of earlier UAP investigative offices (UAPTF, AOIMSG). Its statutory job is to determine, where possible, whether a reported observation has a conventional explanation.

"Unresolved" in AARO's terminology does not mean "officially declared inexplicable." It means the report was received and catalogued, no determination has been concluded, and no formal review process has finalized. That is exactly the disposition all 27 files in this cluster share, and it is what their score components describe as official_disposition: unresolved_no_review.

Why all 27 tie at 66

The site applies a six-axis rubric to every file. All 27 of these AARO submissions share essentially the same evidentiary profile: a single U.S. military sensor platform (infrared in most cases), military-personnel witness credibility, single-witness instrumented capture rather than multi-witness corroboration, no published kinematic measurement, weak rather than dispositive mundane-explanation candidate, and the AARO unresolved-without-review disposition. That profile produces 66.

The rubric reports the honest tie. Twenty-seven files cluster at 66 because they share the structural evidence pattern; the rubric does not invent precision to break ties that the underlying data does not support. To rank these against each other you would need additional criteria the released metadata does not provide.

The standouts

DUAL-SENSOR · IR + EO Syria, July 2022

14 seconds captured simultaneously on an infrared sensor and an electro-optical sensor (DoW-UAP-D16), described as moving north to south. The only file in this cluster with cross-sensor confirmation, which is what closes off the easy single-sensor-artifact explanation.

SWIR DETECTION · 65 SEC Greece, January 2024

1 minute 5 seconds. The mission report (DoW-UAP-D7) describes the UAP as diamond-shaped, moving at approximately 434 knots (about 499 mph), and only detectable via short-wave infrared. The platform had a split EO/SWIR view; when the operator switched the sensor to visible spectrum, the object disappeared against the background. The video description characterizes the object as an inverted teardrop with a vertically linear trailing mass.

REGIONAL CLUSTER · 6 FILES The Arabian Gulf 2020 cluster

Six AARO-submitted reports from the Arabian Gulf area in 2020 (durations range from 11 to 53 seconds where specified). The densest single-year, single-region cluster in the 27. All infrared, all CENTCOM, all logged unresolved.

The full 27, grouped by submitting region

CENTCOM area of responsibility (20 files)

Indo-Pacom area of responsibility (3 files)

Other submissions (4 files)

Group totals: 20 CENTCOM + 3 Indo-Pacom + 4 Other = 27 files. The submitting-command attribution comes from each file's released summary; submissions that did not explicitly state a CENTCOM origin are grouped under "Other."

What this cluster does NOT prove

How to verify everything on this page

  1. Each of the 27 files links above to its dedicated page on this site, where you can view the released video (or read the file if it is a PDF), download the original, see the SHA-256 hash, and click through to the war.gov source URL.
  2. The "27 files at 66" cluster size, the predominantly-CENTCOM submitting-command breakdown, the AARO disposition (unresolved_no_review), and the sensor-modality breakdown are all derived from the manifest score components and the released summaries.
  3. The Syria July 2022 dual-sensor and Greece January 2024 SWIR-detection details cited in the standouts section are quoted from the mission report or video-description text on those specific file summaries.
  4. For the broader methodology, see /methodology. For the full top-10 ranked list, see /top-10.

Bottom line

This 27-file cluster is the most consequential thing in the PURSUE archive for anyone tracking what U.S. military components have actually been logging to AARO. It is not the most visually arresting file (Greece is), and it is not the highest-scoring single file (Gemini 7's astronaut testimony is). But it is the largest single block of structurally-similar, instrumented, AARO-catalogued, unresolved U.S. military UAP observations the federal government has released as a single batch. Twenty-seven of them, mostly CENTCOM, mostly infrared, all unresolved without formal review.