Pentagon's AARO Contact Form Opens Authorized UAP Reporting

Pentagon's AARO Contact Form Opens Authorized UAP Reporting Channel

A newly disclosed paperwork filing reveals that the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is establishing a secure online contact form to collect reports from current and former U.S. government employees, service members, and contractors regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The form supports AARO's mandate to produce a historical record of UAP activities from 1945 to the present.

Published

September 14, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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AARO Contact Form Defines Narrow Authorized Reporting Channel

The Supporting Reporting describes something narrower than a public tip line. The respondents are not the general public in any broad sense. S.

S. Government activities and events related to UAP. That eligibility boundary is the central fact of the document, and it shapes everything the collection is designed to do.

The form itself is the only collection instrument. It is 100 percent electronic, accessible by any web browser via both desktop and mobile device, and it is sent to AARO once the respondent clicks the Submit button on the website. mil.

No other communications are sent to respondents that solicit responses, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs will notify the public when the form is available for use. The statutory basis reinforces the restricted character of the channel. Section of the James M.

S. Government programs and activities related to unidentified anomalous phenomena. The word…

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