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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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131 Department of Energy (DoE), https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-
history/Events/1945/trinity.htm, Leslie Groves, Now It Can Be Told (Harper, 1962).
Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon and Shuster, 1986), Kai Bird and
Martin J. Sherwin
132 Department of Energy (DoE)
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1945/trinity.htm; Leslie Groves,
Now It Can Be Told (Harper, 1962); Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon
and Shuster, 1986).
133 Norman Polmar, “The Pancake that Didn't Fly,” Naval History Magazine, Volume 33,
Number 3, (June 2019); https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-
magazine/2019/june/pancake-didnt-fly
134 National Air and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/vought-v-173-
flying-pancake/nasm A19610120000; Norman Polmar, “The Pancake that Didn't Fly,” Naval
History Magazine, Volume 33, Number 3, (June 2019); https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-
history-magazine/2019/june/pancake-didnt-fly
135 Ibid.
136 U.S. Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert
(Government Printing Office, 1995); https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA326148.pdf; U.S. Air
Force, The Roswell Report: Case Closed (Government Printing Office, 1995),
https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/27/2001330219/-1/-1/0/AFD-101027-030.pdf
137 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://history.nasa.gov/afspbio/part4-4.htm;
U.S. Air Force, The Roswell Report: Case Closed (Government Printing Office, 1995),
https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/27/2001330219/-1/-1/0/AFD-101027-030.pdf; U.S. Air
Force, https://www.secretsdeclassified.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2000345085/
138 Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974
(CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998), https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/books-
monographs/the-cia-and-the-u-2-program-1954-1974/; Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E.
Welzenbach, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead; Reconnaissance Program, The U-
2 and Oxcart Programs 1954-1974 (CIA History Staff, 1992),
https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/iscap/pdf/2014-004-doc01.pdf; Central
Intelligence Agency, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-
RDP62B00844R000200070131-1.pdf; Central Intelligence Agency,

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