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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 2024-03-08 · 63 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 9 …The program was never approved by DHS and its supporters never provided empirical evidence to support…
  • p. 10 …AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before…
  • p. 19 …holdings, 701 were categorized as unidentified and never solved.3839 CIA Evaluation of UFOs (1964) Background…
  • p. 22 …Unlike AAWSAP, AATIP was never an official DoD program. However, after AAWSAP was cancelled, the AATIP…
  • p. 23 …These scientific papers were never thoroughly peer reviewed. • AARO has yet to uncover any other substantive…
  • p. 26 …an advisory committee that advised the government, never reached any significant conclusions.80 • Canada’s Project…
  • p. 27 …the basis that it lacked any proof, and it was never published. The first Director of
  • p. 35 …The SAP was never approved or stood up, and no data or material was transferred to…
  • p. 36 …AARO notes that Persons 1 and 4 never formally sat down with AARO to provide official…
  • p. 44 …the mid-to-late 1990s.191 It never entered production, but the research conducted on Dark…
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152 Robert A. McDonald and Sharon K. Moreno, Raising the Periscope: Grab and Poppy:
America’s Early ELINT Satellites (NRO History Office, 2005).
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/docs/prog-hist-03.pdf
153 Robert A. McDonald and Sharon K. Moreno, Raising the Periscope: Grab and Poppy:
America’s Early ELINT Satellites (NRO History Office, 2005).
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/docs/prog-hist-03.pdf; U.S.
Naval Research Laboratory, https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Media/News/Article/3074375/grab-i-first-
operational-intelligence-satellite/
154 Ibid.
155 National Air and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/what-was-
gemini-program
156 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://www.nasa.gov/gemini/; National Air
and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/what-was-gemini-program
157 National Archives and Records Administration, Kennedy Library,
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/address-to-joint-session-of-
congress-may-25-1961
158 National Air and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/topics/space/apollo-
program; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://www.nasa.gov/learning-
resources/for-kids-and-students/what-was-the-apollo-program-grades-5-8/; National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/missions.html
159 Robert A. McDonald and Sharon K. Moreno, Raising the Periscope: Grab and Poppy:
America’s Early ELINT Satellites (NRO History Office, 2005),
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/docs/prog-hist-03.pdf
160 Bruce Berkowitz, “A Brief History of the NRO” (NRO Center for the Study of National
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/NRO_Brief_History.pdf
161 Ibid.
162 National Reconnaissance Office,
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/gambhex/Docs/GAM_1_Fact_sheet.pdf

Cases discussed

  • Roswell Incident 1947
    Roswell Investigations/Inquiries (1992-2001); Project Mogul

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Report, from the aaro collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 63 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.