PR-002, Resolved as Migratory Birds, Africa 2024
In 2024, the United States Africa Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and eighteen seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform. AARO assesses, with high confidence, that the objects depicted in the video are almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a group of migratory birds. AARO bases its assessment on the objects' strong morphological consistency with other resolved imagery depicting birds and the objects' flight behavior corresponding to known migration routes. An external Intelligence Community partner concurred with AARO's assessment.
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In 2024, the United States Africa Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and eighteen seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform. AARO assesses, with high confidence, that the objects depicted in the video are almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a group of migratory birds. AARO bases its assessment on the objects' strong morphological consistency with other resolved imagery depicting birds and the objects' flight behavior corresponding to known migration routes. An external Intelligence Community partner concurred with AARO's assessment.
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PR-002, Resolved as Migratory Birds, Africa 2024
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Source Provenance
- Source Institution
- aaro
- Agency
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
- Collection
- Released UAP Imagery
- Record Group
- AARO Released Imagery
- NAID
- AARO-PR-002
- Parent NAID
- —
- Original Title
- PR-002, Resolved as Migratory Birds, Africa 2024
- Record Date
- 2024-01-01 – 2024-12-31
- Access Restriction
- Unrestricted
- Use Restriction
- DoD Visual Information — public release
- Level of Description
- Item
- Ingested
- 8/13/2026