PR-004, UAP Report Resolved as a Balloon, Europe 2022
The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of thirty-one seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. AARO assesses, with high confidence, that the object depicted in the video is almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a balloon. AARO bases its assessment on the object's strong morphological consistency with other resolved imagery featuring balloons and the object's performance characteristics strongly aligning with those of lighter-than-air objects, e.g., drifting at wind speed and direction.
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The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of thirty-one seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. AARO assesses, with high confidence, that the object depicted in the video is almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a balloon. AARO bases its assessment on the object's strong morphological consistency with other resolved imagery featuring balloons and the object's performance characteristics strongly aligning with those of lighter-than-air objects, e.g., drifting at wind speed and direction.
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PR-004, UAP Report Resolved as a Balloon, Europe 2022
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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-004
- Parent NAID
- —
- Original Title
- PR-004, UAP Report Resolved as a Balloon, Europe 2022
- Record Date
- 2022-01-01 – 2022-12-31
- Access Restriction
- Unrestricted
- Use Restriction
- DoD Visual Information — public release
- Level of Description
- Item
- Ingested
- 8/13/2026