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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.

  • p. 2 …16 The Robertson Panel (January 1953) ........................................................................................ 17 The Durant Report (February 1953).......................................................................................... 17 Project BLUE BOOK…
  • p. 10 …the year of the standup of the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program (AAWSAP) and Advanced…
  • p. 19 …represented technological or scientific advances outside of a terrestrial framework. The committee’s primary recommendation was…
  • p. 20 …be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.” The panel cautioned against support…
  • p. 22 …the DIA to assess long-term and over-the-horizon foreign advanced aerospace threats to the…
  • p. 27 …Even with the significant advancements in ground- and air- based sensors, the apparent inability to collect…
  • p. 35 …The oral history project will include gathering all information pertaining to the location of advanced aerospace…
  • p. 37 …represent technological advances that could pose counterintelligence and national security threats. Secrecy The USG’s need…
  • p. 38 …A similar challenge remains today, even with the advancement in technology. Most UAP sightings have no…
  • p. 39 …witnessed new technological advancements and testing and reporting them as UFOs. The below examples represent formerly…
  • p. 43 …The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) oversaw the development of HAVE Blue in the mid…
  • p. 44 …The prototype served as the basis for a more advanced design under DARPA.176 It was…
  • p. 45 45 Polecat Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Program organization, also known as “Skunk Works” developed the…
  • p. 60 …https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/from-space-to-museum-showcase- the-space-shuttles-final-mission…
  • p. 61 …Advanced Research Projects Agency, “Predator.” https://www.darpa.mil/about- us/timeline/predator; Strickland, “The Early…
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Research Projects Agency (DARPA), “Predator.” https://www.darpa.mil/about-
us/timeline/predator
176 Roger Connor, “The Predator, a Drone That Transformed Military Combat,” National Air and
Space Museum, March 9, 2018, https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/predator-drone-
transformed-military-combat
177 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, “Predator.” https://www.darpa.mil/about-
us/timeline/predator; Strickland, “The Early Evolution of the Predator Drone,” 1-6; Roger
Connor, “The Predator, a Drone That Transformed Military Combat,” National Air and Space
Museum, March 9, 2018, https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/predator-drone-transformed-
military-combat
178 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, “Predator.” https://www.darpa.mil/about-
us/timeline/predator
179 Ibid.
180 Predator RQ-1/MQ-1/MQ-9 Reaper, Air Force Technology, https://www.airforce-
technology.com/projects/predator-uav/; Christian Clausen, “The evolution of the combat RPA,”
Air Force, December 17, 2016, https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1032544/the-
evolution-of-the-combat-rpa/
181 DARPA, https://www.darpa.mil/About-Us/timeline/predator; U.S. Air Force,
https://af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104469/mq-1b-predator
182 Predator RQ-1/MQ-1/MQ-9 Reaper, Air Force Technology, https://www.airforce-
technology.com/projects/predator-uav/; Strickland, “The Early Evolution of the Predator Drone,”
1-6.
183 Christian Clausen, “The evolution of the combat RPA,” Air Force, December 17, 2016,
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1032544/the-evolution-of-the-combat-rpa/
184 John R. Hoehn and Paul R. Kerr, “Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Current and Potential
Programs,” Congressional Research Service, Report R47067,
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47067
185 U.S. Air Force, “MQ-9 Reaper.” https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/104470/mq-9-reaper/; John R. Hoehn and Paul R. Kerr, “Unmanned
Aircraft Systems: Current and Potential Programs,” Congressional Research Service, Report
R47067. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47067

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