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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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International Security Environment and Technological Surprise ....................................................... 37
Secrecy ................................................................................................................................................ 37
Public Interest ..................................................................................................................................... 38
Alleged Bureaucratic Barriers ............................................................................................................. 38
Insufficient Data and Information ....................................................................................................... 38
Perceived Deception ........................................................................................................................... 38
Differences between 20th and 21st Century UAP Investigations ............................................... 39
Decreased Public Trust ....................................................................................................................... 39
Popular Culture ................................................................................................................................... 39
SECTION VIII: Testing and Development of U.S. National Security and Space Programs Most Likely
Accounted for Some Portion of UAP Sightings ......................................................................................... 39
Summary ................................................................................................................................... 39
Manhattan Project (August 1942) ............................................................................................. 40
V-173/XF5U-1 “Flying Pancake” (1942) ................................................................................. 40
Project Mogul (1947-1949) ....................................................................................................... 40
Project High Dive (1950s)......................................................................................................... 40
Project Aquatone/Dragon Lady (1954) ..................................................................................... 41
WS-117L/CORONA (Late 1956) ............................................................................................. 41
VZ-9AV Avrocar/Project Silver Bug (1958) ............................................................................ 41
Explorer 1 (January 1958) ......................................................................................................... 41
Oxcart/A-12/SR-71 (1958) ........................................................................................................ 41
Project Mercury (1958-1963) .................................................................................................... 42
TATTLETALE/GRAB (September 1960)................................................................................ 42
Project Gemini (1961-1966)...................................................................................................... 42
Project Apollo (1961-1972) ...................................................................................................... 42
Poppy (1962-1977).................................................................................................................... 42
Gambit (1963-1971) .................................................................................................................. 42
Hexagon (1971- 1986) .............................................................................................................. 42
Space Transportation System/Space Shuttle (1972 - 2011) ...................................................... 43
HAVE Blue/F-117A Nighthawk/TACIT Blue (1975) .............................................................. 43
Advanced Technology Bomber/B-2 Spirit (1980) .................................................................... 43
Strategic Defense Initiative (March 1983) ................................................................................ 43
Advent of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 1980s-Present............................................................... 43

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