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.

ODNI/DoD 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

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Summary

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

Agency: Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) →
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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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/.

APA

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). (2020s). ODNI/DoD 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/3667-2022-annual-report-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena

MLA

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). "ODNI/DoD 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." 2020s, https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/3667-2022-annual-report-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena.

Chicago

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). "ODNI/DoD 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." 2020s. https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/3667-2022-annual-report-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena.

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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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.

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Archive state (this release)

Record status: Official link verified
Review status: published
Publication status: published
Archive URL: Not archived in U3
Local copy: Preservation copy hosted on this site
Summary: Not published
Translation: Not published
Added to archive: 2026-06-02
Last revised: 2026-06-04 · 2 revisions

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