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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Reporting and Material­
Disposition GENADMIN
Originator: JOINT STAFF J3 WASHINGTON DC//J36 Homeland Defense Division
Office: J36 Homeland Defense Division
DTG: 1914522 May 23
Pree: Routlne
CNO WASHINGTON DC, HQDA CSA WASHINGTON DC, CSAF WASHINGTON DC, CMC CMC WASHINGTON DC, COMDTCOGARD
WASHINGTON DC, CDR USCENTCOM MACDlll AFB FL, CDR USAFRICOM STUTTGART GE, CDR USNORTHCOM PETERSON AFB CO, CDR
To: USPACOM HONOLULU HI, HQ USSPACECOM COLORADO SPRINGS CO, CDR USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE, CDR USSOUTHCOM MIAMI Fl,
CDR USTRANSCOM SCOTT AFB IL, CDR USSTRATCOM OFFUTT AFB NE, USCYBERCOM FT GEORGE GMEADE MD, CDR NORAD PETERSON
AFB CO, JOINT STAFF DJ2 WASHINGTON DC, JOINT STAFF DB WASHINGTON DC, JOINT STAFF DJS WASHINGTON DC, JOINT STAFF DJS
WASHINGTON DC, OSD ASO HOMELAND DEF AND GLOBAL SEC WASHINGTON OC
CC: OSD USO INTEL WASHINGTON DC
SUBJ / Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Reporting and Material
Disposition
GENADMIN//MSGID/ORDER/CJCS//
REF/A/ MEMO/DEPSECDEF/1SJUL22//
REF/8/ MEMO/USD{l&S)/20JUL22//
REF/C/MSG/OCS/172100ZDEC21//
REF/D/DOC/DOODS-3325.01/30DEC11//
REF/E/DOC/DOOI5200.39/ 10CT20//
REF/F/ DOC/ DOOD5148.13/ 26APR17//
REF/G/MEMO/USO{I&S)AARO/ UNDATEO//
APN/(U) REF A is the Deputy Secretary of Defense Memorandum for
Senior Pentagon Leadership, Commanders of the Combatant Coffllllands
(CCMDS), and Defense Agency and DoD Field Activity Directors
directing establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
(AARO) to detect, identify, attribute and-as necessary-mitigate
anomalous and unidentified spaceborne, airborne, seaborne, and
transmedium objects.
REF Bis the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security
Memorandum for Senior Pentagon Leadership, Convnanders of the
Combatant Co11mands, and Defense Agency and OoD Field Activity
Directors that establishes AARO and its lines of efforts as including
surveillance, collection, and reporting; systems capabilities and
design; intelligence operations and analysis; mitigation and defeat;
governance; and science and technology .
REF C is the EXORO message that directs CCMOs and Services to report
small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) incidents, incursions, and
engagements worldwide.
REF o is t he 000 Directive for Foreign Materiel Program (FMP) and is
a controlled document.
REF Eis the 000 Instruction for Critical Program Information (CPI)
Identification and Protection Within Research, Development, Test, and
Evaluation ( RDT&E). This document reissues DoDI 5200.29 in accordance
with authorities in DoDI 5143.01 and DoDD 5134.01; establishes policy
and assigns responsibilities for the identification and protection of
CPI; establishes policy in accordance with DoDD 5000.01 and DoOI
5000.02; and incorporates and

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cancels the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology,
and Logistics memorandum.
REFF is the 000 Directive for Intelligence Oversight that
establishes polices, assigns responsibilities, and provides
procedures for identifying, investigating, and reporting
questionable intelligence activities and significant or highly
sensitive matter; describes
functions, relationships, and authorities of the DoD Senior
Intelligence Oversight Official; and prescribes responsibilities and
relationships of the Under Secretary for Intelligence, the General
Counsel of the DoD, and the DoD Component heads regarding
intelligence oversight.
ORDTYP/GENADMIN/CJCS//
NARR/ (U) This Joint Staff J3 GENADMIN message provides guidance to
CCMDs and Services 1) to report UAP worldwide, using the reporting
template standards as prescribed below; 2) to report UAP to their
respective counterintelligence element; and 3) to transfer UAP and
UAP-related material to AARO. This GENAOMIN is effective
immediately.
GENTEXT/SITUATION/1. (CUI) The US Government has observed UAP in or
near the territory and/or operating areas of the United States, of
its allies, and of its adversaries, and observing, identifying, and
potentially mitigating UAP has become a growing priority for us
policymakers, laWllakers, and warfighters. The potentially ubiquitous
presence of UAP defines the national security implications of those
anomalies, which range from operational hazards and threats to
technological and intelligence surprise to adversaries' strategic
miscalculations. It is imperative that DoD provide UAP incident,
incursion, and engagement-as defined in paragraph 3.B.-reporting,
data, and material for the Department's detection and mitigation of
potential threats; exploitation of advanced technologies; and
informing policymaker and warfighter decisions. The Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) sets the appropriate Chairman's
Critical InforMation Requirement (CCIR) criteria and ensures each
CCMD and Service is in receipt of the Reporting Matrix. Incursions,
incidents, and engagements that meet CCIR criteria are reported in
accordance with CJCS and CCMO reporting requirements. Each CCMD and
Service ensures the appropriate guidance is in place to receive the
respective reports from Service Component Commands and subordinates.
GENTEXT/MISSION/2,
2.A. (CUI) CCMOs and Services report all UAP incidents, incursions,
and engagements using the below, standardized reporting requirements
and templates; transfer all data from UAP incidents, incursions, and
engagements, as described; and recover and transfer all UAP objects
and materials, as described. Additionally, all CCMOs and Services
notify thei r counterintelligence element of UAP events, in
accordance with their respective counterintelligence reporting
requirements.
2.8. {CUI) Incidents, incursions, and engagements by identifiable,
non-anomalous phenomena (e.g., sUAS and other capabilities or
materials that do not exceed known or predicted performance
envelopes) continue to be reported through established processes and
mechanisms.

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REF c provides i nstructions to CCMOs and Services for reporting sUAS
2.C. (CUI) Recovery and transfer of identifiable, non-anomalous
items of foreign origin that have military potential or applications
continue to be managed by the DoD FMP. REF D provides
responsibilities for the management and operation of the DoD FMP.
GENTEXT/EXECUTION/3.
3.A. (U) CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS
3.A.l. (CUI) Respective subordinates of DoO, CCMDs, and Services
will report all observed UAP incidents, incursions, and engagements
to AARO, through their respective Combatant Co1M1and Joint Operations
Center and Service Watch Cells. AARO receives, databases, and
analyzes UAP reporting, and AARO provides stakeholders its peer­
reviewed analytic conclusions.
3,A.2. (CUI) Respective subordinates of DoD, CCMDs, and Services
send notification of all UAP incidents, incursions, and engagements
to their respective counterintelligence elements.
3.A.3. (CUI) Respective subordinates of DoD, CCMDs, and Services
coordinate with AARO to determine the appropriate location and
entity to transfer all UAP data for incidents, incursions, and
engagements in raw, unedited, unmodified form and in a manner
consistent with the data's classification.
3.A.4. (CUI) Respective subordinates of DoD, CCMOs, and Services
coordinate with AARO to determine the appropriate location(s) and
entities to transfer all UAP objects and material of incidents,
incursions, and engagements in un~odified form, in a manner
consistent with the objects' and materials' classification and
applicable hazardous-materials transport requirements.
3.A.5. (CUI) AARO coordinates across the US Government to identify
the appropriate agency to assist in shipping, transferring,
receiving, storing, examining, etc., of material and data associated
with the UAP incident.
3.8. (U) DEFINITIONS
3.8.1. (U) UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA (UAP) are sources of
anomalous detections in one or more domain (i.e., airborne,
seaborne, spaceborne, and/or transmedium) that are not yet
attributable to known actors and that demonstrate behaviors not
readily understood by sensors or observers. "Anomalous detections"
include but are not limited to phenomena that demonstrate apparent
capabilities or material t hat exceed known performance envelopes. A
UAP may consist of one or more unidentified anomalous objects and
may persist over an extended period of time.
3.8.1.A. (U) SPACEBORNE UAP are sources of anomalous detections
above the Karman Line (i.e., 100km above Earth's mean sea level).
3.8.1.8. (U) AIRBORNE UAP are sources of anomalous detections
between Earth's mean sea level and the Karman Line.
3.8.1.C. (U) SEABORNE UAP are sources of anomalous detections at or
below Earth's mean sea level.
3.8.1.D. (U) TRANSMEOIUM UAP are sources of anomalous detections
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3.8.2. (U) UAP OBJECTS are corporeal artifacts of unidentified
anomalous phenomena. UAP may contain one or more UAP objects (e.g.,
airborne craft exhibiting apparent an0111alous capabilities). UAP
material are samples, in whole or in part, of UAP objects (e.g. ,
debris).
3.8.3. {U) UAP DATUM is any record of UAP detection, observation,
identification, effects (on persons or equipment), mitigation, and
material-exploitation. UAP datum includes but is not limited to
observer, debriefer, and investigator notes and reports; still
photographs and full-motion video; audio recordings; and platform­
and sensor- instrument recordings.
3.8.4.A. (U) A UAP INCIDENT is any occurrence where UAP is detected
by persons or sensors.
3.8.4.8. (U) A UAP INCURSION is any UAP incident in, on, or near US
military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use
airspace (SUA), proximity operations, and/or other areas of
interest. Other areas of interest include but are not limited to US
critical infrastructure and national defense equities of Allied
military and intelligence coalitions (e.g., FIVE EYE).
3.8.4.C. (U) A UAP ENGAGEMENT is a kinetic or non-kinetic response
to a UAP, intended to deny, disrupt, or destroy the phenomenon and/
or its object{s).
3.B.5. {U) A UAP INTERROGATION is the elicitation of UAP location,
capabilities, characteristics, and/or intent using passive and/or
active sensing capabilities-including but not limited to electro?
optical/imagery, infrared/thermal, radiofrequency/radar,
light/laser/lidar/ladar, electromagnetic, gravitational, and
radioactive means.
3.8.6. (U) UAP ATTRIBUTION is the assessed natural or artificial
source of the phenomenon and includes solar, weather, tidal events;
US government, scientific, industry, and private activities; and
foreign (allied or adversary) government, scientific, industry, and
private activities.
3.B.7. (U) A UAP HAZARD is a safety risk to persons, materiel, or
information (e.g., from collision) by UAP that do not demonstrate
hostile intent.
3.8.B. {U) A UAP THREAT is a force-protection and/or national­
security risk to persons, materiel, or information by UAP that
demonstrate hostile intent.
3.B.9. {U) A UAP-REACTION is the apparent UAP response to stimuli,
including but not limited to UAP detection, observation,
interrogation and/or engagement.
3.8.18. (U) DATE(S) OF DETECTION is the period when the UAP was
detected by persons and/or sensors.
3.8.11. {U) DATE OF ACQUISITION is the date when the UAP data and/or
material was made available to the reporting element. When the
reporting element, itself, detects the UAP, then the date of
detection corresponds with the date of acquisition.
3.C. {U) UAP REPORTING
3.C.1. {U) UAP INCIDENT AND INCURSION REPORTS are completed and
securely transmitted to Combatant Command Joint Operations Centers
and Service Watch Centers no later than 96 hours after the event.
Details of UAP-related health incidents (e.g., physiological,
psychological effects and whether persistent or transitory) will be
retained in service members' medical records but shall not/not be
transmitted with the UAP report.
3.C.2. (U) UAP ENGAGEMENT REPORTS are completed and securely
transmitted to Combatant Command Joint Operations Centers and
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Watch Centers no later than 12 hours after the event or upon receipt
of report from Allied/Partner/Host nation.
3.C.3. (U) The below template will be used to report UAP incidents,
incursions, and engagements (• denotes a required response, and••
denotes a required response with additional reporting requirements) :
Line 1. •(u) REPORT CLASSIFICATION AND HANDLING INSTRUCTIONS:
Line 2. •(U) DATE-TIME OF DETECTION Date Time Group (DTG) (i.e.,
DDHHHHZ/9"1'1YYYY; indicate whether estimated or precise):
Line 3.A. •(u) UAP-EVENT TYPE (i.e., UAP incident, UAP incursion,
and/or UAP engagement):
Line 3.B. •(U) UAP-EVENT DESCRIPTION NARRATIVE (i.e., concise summary
of the UAP event):
Line 4.A. •(U) NUMBER OF UAP OBJECTS DETECTED AND METHOD (e.g., three
UAP objects detected with radar, one of which was observed visually):
Line 4.8. •cu) UAP GEOLOCATION (i.e., where UAP was first sighted;
specify coordinate standard used; indicate whether estimated or
precise) :
Line 4.C. (U) UAP OBJECT(S) ALTITUDE, DEPTH, VELOCITY, AND TRAJECTORY
(indicate estimated or measured):
Line S.A. ••(CUI) UAP ANOMALOUS CHARACTERISTICS/BEHAVIORS (e.g., no
apparent control surfaces, extreme acceleration/direction change,
detection by certain sensors but not others) :
Line 5.8. •(U) UAP OBJECT(S) OESCRIPTION (e.g. , size, shape, color,
markings, recognizable features) AND PHYSICAL STATE (i.e., solid,
liquid, gas, plasma):
Line 5.C. (CUI) UAP OBJECT(S) SIGNATURE(S) (e.g., acoustic, radio
frequency, light, thermal, gravitational , radioactive-with
identification of detecting sensor):
Line 5.D. {U) UAP OBJECT(S) PROPULSION MEANS (e.g., none observed,
rotary wing/propeller):
Line 5.E. (U) UAP OBJECT(S) MANEWERABILITY OBSERVATIONS:
Line 5. F. (U) UAP OBJECT(S) PAYLOAD:
Line 5.G. (U) UAP OBJECT(S) UNDER APPARENT INTELLIGENT CONTROL
(yes/no; if yes, describe):
Line 7.A. •(U) UAP OBSERVER GEOLOCATION (Latitude-Longitude or MGRS
of the observer and/or sensor; specify coordinate standard used):
Line 7.8. •(U) OBSERVER ALTITUDE/DEPTH, VELOCITY, AND TRAJECTORY:
Line 7,C. (U) OBSERVER INTERROGATION OF UAP (yes/no; if yes list
sensor(s) used and describe returns):
Line 7.D. •(U) OBSERVER ASSESSMENT OF UAP (i.e., benign, hazard,
threat):
Line 7.E. • (u) OBSERVER ENGAGEMENT OF UAP (yes/no; if yes, describe):
Line 7.F. •(u) UAP REACTION TO OBSERVATION, INTERROGATION, ENGAGEMENT
(yes/no; if yes, what preceded the reaction (e.g,. observer's active
sensing, communication, weapons arllling, engagement)):
Line 8.A. (U) UAP EFFECTS ON EQUIPMENT (e.g., mechanical, electrical
controls and weapons systems and whether persistent or transitory):
Line 8.8. (U) UAP EFFECTS ON PERSONS (yes/no):
Line 9. (U) UAP FINAL GEOLOCATION (i.e., where UAP was last sighted;
specify coordinate standard used):
Line 10. •(U) UAP OBJECTS/MATERIAL RECOVERED (yes/no; if yes,
describe the objects/111aterial recovered):
Line 11.A. (U) CALLSIGN AND MISSION NUMBER/ IDENTIFIER (of Do0
observer):
Line 11.B. •(U) REPORTING UNIT, POC CONTAC