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UAP Reporting Infrastructure

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UAP Reporting Infrastructure

UAP reporting infrastructure refers to the systems, protocols, and organizational structures through which UAP sightings are collected, categorized, and investigated. In 2025, this infrastructure underwent rapid expansion and formalization across military, civilian, and international domains.

Components

Government/Military

  • aaro — Pentagon’s central investigative body, implemented new case-management architecture in 2025 integrating inputs from faa, civil aviation, and military sensors
  • faa Notice JO 7110.800 (October 2025) — Mandatory UAP reporting for air traffic control, linked to AARO frameworks
  • FY2026 NDAA provisions consolidating reporting across federal agencies to eliminate duplication

Civilian

  • Enigma app — Citizen reporting app; documented over 9,000 USO sightings within 10 miles of U.S. shorelines since August 2025
  • americans-for-safe-aerospace — Pilot-led organization; received over 700 reports in 2025 (doubled from 2024)
  • scu — Advocates for independent civilian sensor networks

International

Academic

Key Shift: Safety Framing

A strategically significant development in 2025 was reframing UAP reports as safety-of-flight concerns rather than intelligence or defense matters. According to src-uap-landscape-2025, this provides a non-stigmatized rationale for reporting, potentially increasing data flow from commercial aviation. This approach, championed by ryan-graves, sidesteps contentious questions about UAP origins to focus on practical airspace safety.

Barriers

  • Fragmentation across agencies (addressed by FY2026 NDAA consolidation)
  • uap-stigma deterring reports from pilots and military personnel
  • Overclassification of existing data (addressed by NDAA classification review provisions)
  • Funding limitations for civilian sensor networks

AARO Case Management System (2025)

In May 2025, aaro issued its first formal contractor solicitation for a classified case management system (CMS) on JWICS, the DoD’s top secret/SCI network. The system would integrate AARO’s existing ad hoc tools into a unified platform with automated data extraction, case categorization, and encrypted storage (src-aaro-case-management-system-2025).

Gremlin Sensor System

AARO deployed the Gremlin prototype detection system for a 90-day baseline collection at an undisclosed national security site in 2024, with plans to expand to other U.S. regions (src-aaro-fy2024-annual-report-2024).

Narrative-Data Framework (2026 AARO Whitepaper)

AARO’s 2025 UAP Workshop whitepaper (src-aaro-uap-data-collection-whitepaper-2026-03) introduces the corpus-vs-narrative framing for qualitative reports, and recommends specific field-level additions to witness-report forms: how the witness estimated size/distance/speed, recurrence of similar sightings, approximate witness counts, and whether the object reacted to observer presence. See uap-narrative-data.

Public Reporting Mechanism

jon-kosloski announced plans in November 2024 to launch a public reporting mechanism allowing civilians to submit UAP sighting reports through the AARO website (src-aaro-kosloski-testimony-2024).

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