ODNI/DoD 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

ODNI Report landing 2020s Official link verified

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The 2022 Annual Report on UAP — the first congressionally mandated annual report from ODNI and the Department of Defense, released January 2023. It covered 247 new reports plus 119 identified later, with about half assessed as having ordinary explanations.

The 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena was the first consolidated annual report required of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022. An unclassified version was released in January 2023 alongside a classified report to Congress. Building on the 144 reports in the 2021 preliminary assessment, it described 247 new reports and 119 additional reports identified later — 366 in total — and noted 510 UAP reports on record as of 30 August 2022. After initial analysis, about half were assessed to have ordinary explanations such as uncrewed aircraft, balloons, and clutter. The archive links the document landing page and does not host the document.

Common questions

What is the 2022 Annual Report on UAP?
It was the first congressionally mandated annual report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena from ODNI and the Department of Defense, with an unclassified version released in January 2023.
How many UAP reports did it cover?
It described 247 new reports plus 119 identified later (366 in total, beyond the 144 in the 2021 preliminary assessment), and noted 510 UAP reports on record as of 30 August 2022.
What did initial analysis find?
About half of the reports were assessed to have ordinary explanations such as uncrewed aircraft, balloons, and clutter.

Source & Classification

Record metadata

Record type
Report landing
Decade
2020s
Review status
published
Publication status
published

Official source link

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/3667-2022-annual-report-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena

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Cite this record

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). "ODNI/DoD 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena". 2020s. Official source: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/3667-2022-annual-report-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena. Cataloged by the independent UAP Records Archive (not an official or government source): https://uap-archive.org/uap/records/odni-2022-annual-report-uap/.

BibTeX

@misc{uaprecords_odni-2022-annual-report-uap,
  title  = {ODNI/DoD 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena},
  author = {Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)},
  year   = {2020s},
  howpublished = {Official source: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/3667-2022-annual-report-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena},
  note   = {Cataloged by the independent UAP Records Archive — not an official or government source},
  url    = {https://uap-archive.org/uap/records/odni-2022-annual-report-uap/}
}

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Archivist note

The 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, the first consolidated annual report required of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022. According to ODNI, an unclassified version was released publicly in January 2023 alongside a classified report submitted to Congress. This archive links the official document landing page and does not host the document.

Browser verification on 2026-06-02 confirmed this ODNI document landing page on dni.gov resolves (page title: “2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”). dni.gov blocks automated fetch, so the URL was confirmed via manual browser (Chrome) review rather than automated request, consistent with the archive’s source-verification practice.

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Record status
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Review status
published
Publication status
published
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