diff --git a/packages/react-native/cli.js b/packages/react-native/cli.js
index a2d1ff21d6ad..40abd7a1288c 100755
--- a/packages/react-native/cli.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/cli.js
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ function findCommunityCli(startDir /*: string */ = process.cwd()) {
   // With isolated node_modules (eg pnpm), we won't be able to find
   // `@react-native-community/cli` starting from the `react-native` directory.
   // Instead, we should use the project root, which we assume to be the cwd.
-  const options: {paths?: Array<string>, ...} = {paths: [startDir]};
+  const options /*: {paths?: Array<string>, ...} */ = {paths: [startDir]};
   const rncli = require.resolve('@react-native-community/cli', options);
   // $FlowFixMe[unsupported-syntax]
   return require(rncli);
diff --git a/scripts/releases/utils/version-utils.js b/scripts/releases/utils/version-utils.js
index 8f42ba7647ba..6d530b5cfa3f 100644
--- a/scripts/releases/utils/version-utils.js
+++ b/scripts/releases/utils/version-utils.js
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ function parseVersion(
   const match = extractMatchIfValid(versionStr);
   const [, version, major, minor, patch, prerelease] = match;
 
-  const parsedVersion: Version = {
+  const parsedVersion /*: Version */ = {
     version,
     major,
     minor,