2023 · ODNI / AARO
366 more reports
Part ofThe cover layer
Cover: "2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena", ODNI, released 12 January 2023. · Office of the Director of National Intelligence
When12 January 2023
WhereODNI / AARO
Backing1 independent
Evidencedocuments
The ODNI and AARO's 2022 annual report, released on 12 January 2023, counted 366 new UAP reports since the 2021 preliminary assessment. The report itself put many down to balloons, drones and clutter, but left 171 uncharacterised, some showing unusual flight characteristics or performance.
Evidence, in date order (1)
- 12 Jan 2023ODNIdocument2022 Annual Report on UAP: 366 new reports since the 2021 preliminary assessment ODNI
How plausible · Very high
The intelligence community's own report counts 366 new cases with 171 uncharacterised.
- ●●Access The government's own data.
- ●●No gain sought Official report.
- ●●Restraint Explains most cases as clutter.
- ●●Character record ODNI.
- ●●Checkable details check out Published report.
- ●●Fits the documented skeleton Part of the AARO record.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
Claims
Most of the new reports were later put down to balloons, drones or clutter; 171 stayed uncharacterised, some with unusual flight characteristics.firsthandOn the recordODNI 2022 Annual Report