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.

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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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186 U.S. Air Force, “MQ-9 Reaper,” https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/104470/mq-9-reaper/
187 Ibid.
188 Ibid.
189 U.S. Air Force, “MQ-9 Reaper,” https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/104470/mq-9-reaper/; Predator RQ-1/MQ-1/MQ-9 Reaper UAV, Air
Force Technology, https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/predator-uav/
190 U.S. Department of Defense, “Air Force to Retire MQ-1 Predator Drone, Transition to MQ-9
Reaper,” https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/1095612/air-force-to-
retire-mq-1-predator-drone-transition-to-mq-9-reaper/; Predator RQ-1/MQ-1/MQ-9 Reaper
UAV, Air Force Technology, https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/predator-uav/
191 U.S. Air Force, https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/195774/lockehhed-martin-rq-3-darkstar/;
https://www.airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/lockheed-martin-boeing-rq-3a-dark-
star/nasm_A20070230000; https://www.armypress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-
institute/csi-books/OP37.pdf
192 Ibid.
193 Ibid.
194 Lockheed Martin, “Popular Science Awards Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Polecat
UAV Best of What’s New for 2006.” https://investors.lockheedmartin.com/node/17136/pdf;
“From the Skunk Works, a New Polecat Emerges,” Air & Space Forces Magazine,
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/1005polecat/
195 Ibid.
196 U.S. Air Force, “RQ-170 Sentinel.” https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/2796993/rq-170-sentinel/
197 Ibid.

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Cases discussed

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

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