A Republican-sponsored bill would eliminate the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and distribute its unidentified aerial phenomena investigation duties across multiple Defense Department agencies, according to a Newsweek report.
The proposed legislation would also include provisions prohibiting the creation of any new centralized UFO", covering any airborne object that cannot be immediately identified.">UAP authority, potentially ending the coordinated approach to UAP investigation that has been in place since AARO's establishment in 2022.
AARO currently serves as the Defense Department's single point of contact for UAP reports and maintains the government's official UAP case database. The office has processed more than 2,000 UAP cases since its creation.
The move would represent a significant shift in military UAP investigation methodology, reversing the centralized structure that emerged from congressional mandates following high-profile UAP disclosures in recent years.
For transparency advocates, a distributed approach could complicate efforts to track investigation progress and ensure consistent standards across UAP research programs, as oversight would be spread across multiple Defense Department entities rather than housed within a single accountable office.