AARO — the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — is the U.S. Department of War office responsible for investigating and resolving UAP reports across services and intelligence agencies. Established in July 2022 under the Department of Defense (now Department of War) and ODNI, AARO consolidated functions previously distributed across AATIP, UAPTF, and the AOIMSG.
In PURSUE Release 01, AARO is the largest single agency contributor: 47 files, including the Tic Tac and Gimbal/Go Fast reference packets and the recent Iraq (2022) and Syria (2024) memoranda. AARO's reanalysis of the Tic Tac and FLIR videos — published with full sensor configuration data for the first time — preserves three Nimitz incidents as unresolved and reclassifies several previously-cited "sudden acceleration" clips as parallax artefacts.
AARO's public posture is conservative: it preserves cases as unresolved when sensor or witness data is genuinely insufficient to explain them, and it reclassifies cases as resolved when the metadata permits. This is the bar science requires; it is also slower and less newsworthy than disclosure-advocate narratives prefer.