018 UNCLASSIFIED All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office U.S. Department of Defense (U) Case: “Eglin UAP” Case Resolution | 14 October 2023 (U) Case Background (U) Case Essentials (U) On 26 January 2023, a military pilot reported four potential unidentified anomalous (U) A military pilot reported the object phenomena (UAP) while operating in the Eglin due to its potential as a flight safety Air Force Base training range off the coast of hazard and an incursion into a sensitive Florida. Through the onboard radar system, the training range pilot initially observed that the four objects were (U) Location: Near Eglin Air Force Base, aloft between 16,000 – 18,000 feet and appeared Florida to be flying in formation. However the pilot observed only one of the four objects visually (U) Date: 26 January 2023 and captured two images of the single object via (U) Altitude: 16,000 feet the aircraft’s electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensor (see Figures 1A and 1B). The pilot could (U) Shape: Rounded, cone not record video of the event because the (U) Reporter: Military personnel aircraft’s video recording equipment was inoperable prior to and during the aircraft’s (U) Sensor: Electro-optical, infrared, flight. The pilot observed this single object aloft visual identification, and radar at 16,000 feet. The following case information is (U) Behavior: No confirmed anomalous based on the pilot’s initial report and a behavior subsequent discussion that AARO held with the pilot to seek additional details about the pilot’s (U) Case Status: Resolved; very likely a observation of the reported object. lighter-than-air object, such as a large commercial lighting balloon • (U) The pilot described the object as gray with a paneled surface and orange-red (U) Confidence Level: Moderate coloring at the center. The initial report did not provide the object’s size and speed, but in the subsequent discussion with AARO, the pilot reported the object was about 12 feet in diameter and that it either moved very slowly or was potentially stationary. • (U) In the initial report, the pilot described the bottom half of the object as being rounded, and the top half as a rounded, three-dimensional cone shape, similar to the shape of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Chief of Staff, AARO Authority: FY24 NDAA, now codified at 44 U.S.C. 2107 1 Page determined to be Unclassified Date: 02/06/2025 UNCLASSIFIED Review by Chief of Staff, AARO Released in Full: ____X___; Released in Part ______ IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C) Case Number: 330UAP000018 Date: 02/06/2025