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FAA drops private UFO-center referral and makes controllers report UAP

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Controllers at the FAA's New York Air Route Traffic Control Center
An FAA air route traffic control center; controllers were told to report UAP directly United States Federal Aviation Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

An FAA notice replaced the air traffic manual's 'UFO Reports' section, which had told controllers to refer callers to a private center such as the National UFO Reporting Center. Controllers must now tell supervisors of UAP reports, and ATC must notify the FAA's security operations team.

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  1. OfficialNotice N 7110.800: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) ReportsFederal Aviation Administration / 2025-10-26
  2. OfficialOrder JO 7110.65V, Section 8: Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Reports (2014 edition)Federal Aviation Administration / 2014-04-03
  3. OfficialJO 7110.65, Chapter 9, Section 8: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Reports (current)Federal Aviation Administration

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