Informationsblad om avklassificering och UAP-dokument 2025

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An AARO Information Paper
AARO and the Declassification Process 
September 2025 
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the U.S. Department of War 
office established to investigate and resolve report of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). 
AARO is responsible for receiving, processing, and adjudicating UAP reports, and routinely 
accesses classified information—including that collected by U.S. Government systems—to 
complete its review of UAP reports. The processes governing the classification of information 
are complex and can be misunderstood. Our national defense requires that certain information be 
classified to protect our citizens, our democratic institutions, our homeland security, and our 
interactions with foreign nations. Nevertheless, as established by law and in accordance with 
direction from the Secretary of War, AARO places a heavy emphasis on transparency in 
facilitating the declassification and release of information so the public can see the results of 
AARO’s reviews for themselves. 
What are UAP? 
UAP are as-yet-unknown objects that exhibit potentially anomalous characteristics and 
are seen or recorded in space, the sky, or the ocean. The vast majority of UAP reports are 
eventually determined to be mundane objects—such as balloons, satellites, and birds—after 
further review. A small percentage of reported UAP exhibit potentially anomalous characteristics, 
and AARO expends most of its review efforts on these UAP reports. 
For the public, UAP sightings raise a profound and enduring question: Are we alone in 
the universe? Another question often follows: What does the U.S. Government really know about 
UAP? Though AARO has found no evidence of extraterrestrial beings or technology to date, the 
office considers all available evidence in conducting its analyses.
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Figure 1: A screenshot from 2:53 of the video titled “Al Taqaddum Object” (popularly known as “the 
jellyfish video”), available to view online at https://www.dvidshub.net//video/960331/al-taqaddum-object. 
Why is so much UAP-related information classified? 
Classification is a mechanism the U.S. Government uses to safeguard sensitive 
information related to national security. For the Department of War, this sensitive information 
could include military objectives, locations, and capabilities, as well as vulnerabilities and 
intelligence sources and methods. For example, if an F-35 fighter jet pilot uses the aircraft’s 
camera to take an image of an ordinary object (a soda can, for example), that image could be 
classified for reasons other than the subject of the image (here, the soda can) and instead due to 
the use of the fighter jet’s camera. The image could contain information that meets the standards 
for classification due to its relationship to a sensitive capability that is itself classified. For 
instance, the raw image may include information about the resolution, metadata, or other 
sensitive information that could be used to deduce that camera’s capabilities and limitations. If 
an adversary were to combine this information with other information about the aircraft, that 
adversary might be able to draw conclusions about how to elude detection by those aircraft 
because that adversary would now better understand the capabilities of the F-35’s sensors. 
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