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The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued this February 2024 report, Volume I of its Historical Record Report. It reviews U.S. government UAP investigations since 1945, drawing on archives and about 30 interviews. AARO found no evidence that any investigation confirmed extraterrestrial technology and no empirical evidence of hidden reverse-engineering programs. It attributes such claims largely to circular reporting and misidentified classified programs, and it describes KONA BLUE and a metal sample found to be an ordinary terrestrial alloy.
2 Table of Contents SECTION I: Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 6 SECTION II: Executive Summary .............................................................................................................. 7 SECTION III: Scope & Assumptions ........................................................................................................ 11 Scope ......................................................................................................................................... 11 Assumptions .............................................................................................................................. 11 Note on “UAP” Nomenclature .................................................................................................. 12 Congressional Oversight ........................................................................................................... 12 AARO’s HR2 Program of Analysis .......................................................................................... 12 SECTION IV: Accounts of USG UAP Investigatory Programs Since 1945 ............................................. 13 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 13 Project SAUCER (1946/1947–January 1948)........................................................................... 13 Project SIGN (January 1948–February 1949) ........................................................................... 14 Project GRUDGE (Original Organization) (February–December 1949) ................................. 15 Project TWINKLE (Summer 1949–Summer 1950).................................................................. 15 Project GRUDGE (Reestablishment) (October 1951–March 1952) ......................................... 15 Project BEAR (Late 1951–Late 1954) ...................................................................................... 16 CIA Special Study Group (1952) .............................................................................................. 16 The Robertson Panel (January 1953) ........................................................................................ 17 The Durant Report (February 1953).......................................................................................... 17 Project BLUE BOOK (March 1952–December 1969) ............................................................. 18 CIA Evaluation of UFOs (1964) ............................................................................................... 19 O’Brien Committee (1964) ....................................................................................................... 19 The Condon Report (April 1968) .............................................................................................. 19 National Academy of Sciences Assessment of the Condon Report (Late 1968) ...................... 20 Carter Administration Tasking to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (1977) ........................................................................................................................................ 21 Roswell Investigations/Inquiries (1992-2001) .......................................................................... 21 Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program (AAWSAP) (2009–2012)/ Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)................................................. 22 Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) (August 2020-November 2021) ......... 24 Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (June 2021) .................................. 24
Report, from the aaro collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 63 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.