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All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office
US Department of Defense
Case: "Western United States"
Case Resolution | 8 May 2023
(U) Key Findings
(U) AARO assesses that the UAP in this case were almost certainty commercial aircraft travelling on well-established air corridors as far as 300 nautical mites from the platform, based on a thorough review of the data by multiple analytical and scientific entities.
- (U) Military personnel reported seeing five equidistant lights that they believed represented a potential incursion into restricted military airspace.
- (U) AARO's intelligence and Science and Technology (S&T) partners independently came to the same conclusion in accordance with AARO's analytic framework.
- (U) The objects strongly correlated with specific commercial aircraft travelling on different air routes up to 300 nautical miles from the sensor.
(U) Intelligence Assessment
(U) Analysis of the objects' positions and acquisition of additional data led AARO to the conclusion that the objects were significantly farther from the platform than originally estimated by the observers.
(U) Case Essentials
(U) Military personnel reported this case due to the observed UAP presenting a potential incursion into restricted airspace. The UAP were described as equidistant lights that flew at a relatively constant pace
(U) Location: Western United States military airspace
(U) Date(s): 2021
(U) Altitude: between 20,000 to 40,000 feet
(U) Shape: Oblong dots/lights
(U) Reporter: Military personnel
(U) Sensor: Infrared (IR)
(U) Behavior: Equidistant lights that flew at a relatively constant pace
(U) Case Status: Resolved; the lights were aircraft up to 300NM away from the sensor
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