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PR-002, Resolved as Migratory Birds, Africa 2024

This video file is part of AARO's Official UAP Imagery release. According to the releasing agency, in 2024 the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), consisting of one minute and eighteen seconds of infrared sensor footage from a U.S. military platform. AARO assesses with high confidence that the objects depicted are almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a group of migratory birds, basing its assessment on the objects' strong morphological consistency with other resolved bird imagery and flight behavior corresponding to known migration routes. An external Intelligence Community partner concurred with AARO's assessment. The media shows a distant unified aerial object moving steadily across the sky, with some pilot communication with an air traffic controller.

Source: AARO — Official UAP Imageryd34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.netIncident 2024Released Aug 2025Discovered Jul 2, 20267.6 MBvideo
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Description

AARO-released infrared video (1 minute 18 seconds) captured by a sensor aboard a U.S. military platform, submitted in 2024 by U.S. Africa Command as a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon. AARO assesses with high confidence the objects are almost certainly a group of migratory birds.

Claims

  • The objects in the video are almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a group of migratory birds.

    90%
  • The assessment is based on morphological consistency with other resolved bird imagery and flight behavior matching known migration routes.

    85%
  • An external Intelligence Community partner concurred with AARO's assessment.

    80%
  • The footage consists of one minute and eighteen seconds from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform.

    90%

Events

  1. Dec 31, 2023

    AFRICOM UAP report submitted to AARO

    U.S. Africa Command submitted infrared video footage of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to AARO.

  2. AARO resolution as migratory birds

    AARO assessed with high confidence that the objects are almost certainly a group of migratory birds; an IC partner concurred.

Dates mentioned

20242025-08

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