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This is Volume I of the Historical Record Report from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated February 2024 and released in full in February 2025. It reviews US government UAP investigations since 1945, from Project SIGN and Blue Book through the Condon Report, AATIP and the UAP Task Force. AARO found no evidence that any sighting involved extraterrestrial technology or that anyone reverse-engineered alien craft. It says the claims come largely from circular reporting, and it names KONA BLUE as a proposed program that was never approved.
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3 Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) / Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Management Committee (AOIMEXEC) (November 2021-June 2022) ............................................................................ 24 UAP Independent Study Team (UAPIST) (June 2022-September 2023)................................. 25 All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) (Established July 15, 2022) ....................... 25 Foreign and Academic Investigatory Efforts ............................................................................ 26 Key Findings ............................................................................................................................. 27 SECTION V: Assessment of Interviewee Claims of USG Involvement in Hidden UAP Programs ......... 28 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 28 Primary Narrative ...................................................................................................................... 28 Secondary Narrative .................................................................................................................. 30 Findings............................................................................................................................................... 30 No Official UAP Nondisclosure Agreements Discovered .................................................................. 30 Former CIA Official Involvement in Movement of Alleged Material Recovered from a UAP Crash Denied on the Record.......................................................................................................................... 31 The 1961 Special National Intelligence Estimate on “UFOs” Assessed to be Not Authentic ............ 31 Aliens Observing Material Test a Likely Misunderstanding of an Authentic, Non-UAP Program Activity ............................................................................................................................................... 31 Allegation that a Former U.S. military Service Member Touched an Extraterrestrial Spacecraft ...... 32 The UAP with Peculiar Characteristics Refers to an Authentic, Non-UAP-Related SAP.................. 32 Extraterrestrial Disclosure Study Confirmed; Not White House-Sponsored ...................................... 32 Aerospace Companies Denied Involvement in Recovering Extraterrestrial Craft.............................. 32 Sample of Alleged Alien Spacecraft is an Ordinary, Terrestrial, Metal Alloy ................................... 32 AARO Investigating Unresolved Historical Nuclear-Related UAP Cases ......................................... 33 SECTION VI: Investigation into Named USG Sensitive Programs .......................................................... 33 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 33 Process for Protecting Sensitive Programs while Investigating Interviewee Claims................ 34 Findings ..................................................................................................................................... 34 One Private Program Mistaken for USG Program .............................................................................. 34 KONA BLUE: A Proposed UAP Recovery and Reverse-Engineering Program ............................... 34 Unnecessary IC Program Expansion................................................................................................... 35 Nexus of Proponents of the USG UAP Reverse-Engineering Allegation .......................................... 35 SECTION VII: Historical Context of UAP Investigatory Efforts Since 1945 .......................................... 36 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 36 Commonalities of 20th and 21st Century UAP Investigations ................................................... 3705Page determined to be Unclassified Review by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C) Date: 02/05/2025
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 63 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.