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AARO Historical Record Report Volume 1

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

The Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued Volume I of its Historical Record Report in February 2024. It reviews U.S. Government UAP investigations since 1945, drawing on classified and unclassified archives and about 30 interviews. AARO found no evidence that any sighting represented extraterrestrial technology and no empirical evidence of reverse-engineering programs, attributing such claims to misidentified sensitive programs, the unapproved KONA BLUE proposal and circular reporting. It also found an alleged crash sample 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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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

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