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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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4 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
Report, cited by the archive. 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.