The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, known as AARO, posted its annual UAP report in late July 2026, roughly nine months after it was due. It covers June 2024 through May 2025.

In that window AARO logged 319 new reports: 274 in the air, 44 in space and one at sea. It closed 114 of them, and satellites catching the sunlight explained all the space cases. Another 191 went into what it calls an active archive because there wasn’t enough data to judge them, and nine were sent for further technical analysis. The office now holds 1,870 cases in total.

The single sea case is the one people are talking about. U.S. Navy units operating off Virginia reported about 100 airborne objects along with two craft that AARO thinks were likely uncrewed boats. The report adds almost nothing else and says the investigation is ongoing.

Nuclear sites saw a jump too. The National Nuclear Security Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission referred 50 drone incidents near U.S. nuclear facilities, up 178%, though AARO judged none of them genuine UAP. As in past reports, it says it found no evidence that the government or any company has recovered alien material, and no verified health effects from encounters.