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aaro historical record report volume 1 2024

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The Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) issued Volume I of its Historical Record Report in February 2024, reviewing U.S. government involvement with UAP since 1945. It found no evidence that any government investigation confirmed extraterrestrial technology, and no empirical evidence of hidden reverse-engineering programs. It says interviewee claims came from misidentified real classified programs or circular reporting. It also names KONA BLUE as an unapproved proposal and identifies an alleged crash sample as a terrestrial alloy.

  • p. 10 …The program was never approved by DHS and its supporters never provided empirical evidence to support…
  • p. 11 …AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before…
  • p. 20 …holdings, 701 were categorized as unidentified and never solved.3839 CIA Evaluation of UFOs (1964) Background…
  • p. 23 …Unlike AAWSAP, AATIP was never an official DoD program. However, after AAWSAP was cancelled, the AATIP…
  • p. 24 …These scientific papers were never thoroughly peer reviewed. • AARO has yet to uncover any other substantive…
  • p. 27 …an advisory committee that advised the government, never reached any significant conclusions.80 • Canada’s Project…
  • p. 28 …the basis that it lacked any proof, and it was never published. The first Director of
  • p. 36 …The SAP was never approved or stood up, and no data or material was transferred to…
  • p. 37 …AARO notes that Persons 1 and 4 never formally sat down with AARO to provide official…
  • p. 45 …the mid-to-late 1990s.191 It never entered production, but the research conducted on Dark…
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Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) /
Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Management Committee
(AOIMEXEC) (November 2021-June 2022) ............................................................................ 24
UAP Independent Study Team (UAPIST) (June 2022-September 2023)................................. 25
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) (Established July 15, 2022) ....................... 25
Foreign and Academic Investigatory Efforts ............................................................................ 26
Key Findings ............................................................................................................................. 27
SECTION V: Assessment of Interviewee Claims of USG Involvement in Hidden UAP Programs ......... 28
Summary ................................................................................................................................... 28
Primary Narrative ...................................................................................................................... 28
Secondary Narrative .................................................................................................................. 30
Findings............................................................................................................................................... 30
No Official UAP Nondisclosure Agreements Discovered .................................................................. 30
Former CIA Official Involvement in Movement of Alleged Material Recovered from a UAP Crash
Denied on the Record.......................................................................................................................... 31
The 1961 Special National Intelligence Estimate on “UFOs” Assessed to be Not Authentic ............ 31
Aliens Observing Material Test a Likely Misunderstanding of an Authentic, Non-UAP Program
Activity ............................................................................................................................................... 31
Allegation that a Former U.S. military Service Member Touched an Extraterrestrial Spacecraft ...... 32
The UAP with Peculiar Characteristics Refers to an Authentic, Non-UAP-Related SAP.................. 32
Extraterrestrial Disclosure Study Confirmed; Not White House-Sponsored ...................................... 32
Aerospace Companies Denied Involvement in Recovering Extraterrestrial Craft.............................. 32
Sample of Alleged Alien Spacecraft is an Ordinary, Terrestrial, Metal Alloy ................................... 32
AARO Investigating Unresolved Historical Nuclear-Related UAP Cases ......................................... 33
SECTION VI: Investigation into Named USG Sensitive Programs .......................................................... 33
Summary ................................................................................................................................... 33
Process for Protecting Sensitive Programs while Investigating Interviewee Claims................ 34
Findings ..................................................................................................................................... 34
One Private Program Mistaken for USG Program .............................................................................. 34
KONA BLUE: A Proposed UAP Recovery and Reverse-Engineering Program ............................... 34
Unnecessary IC Program Expansion................................................................................................... 35
Nexus of Proponents of the USG UAP Reverse-Engineering Allegation .......................................... 35
SECTION VII: Historical Context of UAP Investigatory Efforts Since 1945 .......................................... 36
Summary ................................................................................................................................... 36
Commonalities of 20th and 21st Century UAP Investigations ................................................... 37

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