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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 05_AARO_Historical_Record_Report

Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. · 2023 · 63 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 2 …19 National Academy of Sciences Assessment of the Condon Report (Late 1968) ...................... 20 Carter Administration Tasking…
  • p. 20 …Hynek—a panel of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was tasked in late 1968 to…
  • p. 50 …50 The National Academy of Sciences Panel Assessment of the Condon Report; https://www.apps.dtic…
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1 Anjali Nandan, “Eyewitness Testimony: A Psychological and Legal Perspective,” Journal of
Positive School of Psychology, 2022; Biswa Prakesh Nayak & H. Khajuria, “Eyewitness
Testimony: Probative Value in the Criminal Justice System,” Egyptian Journal of Forensic
Science, 2019; Stephen L. Chew, “Myth: Eyewitness Testimony is the Best Kind of Evidence,”
Association for Psychological Science, 2018; Fangting Liu, “The Reliability of Eyewitness
Testimony,” from the Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and
Social Sciences, Atlantis Press, 2021.
2 Daniel Khaneman, “Thinking Fast and Slow,” Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2013; Helen Lee,
“Don’t Let Anchoring Bias Weigh Down Your Judgment,” Harvard Business Review, August
30, 2022; Richard J, Heuer, Jr., “Psychology of Intelligence Analysis,” Novinka Books, 1999;
Drake Baer, “Kahneman: Your Confirmation Bias Acts Like an Optical Illusion,” The Cut,
January 13, 2017; Ben Yagoda, “The Cognitive Bias Tricking Your Brain,” The Atlantic,
September 2018.
3 https://military-history.fandom.com/wikiProject-Sign; Connors, Wendy, Project Blue Book
4 Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday, 1956),
https://ia801304.us.archive.org/22/items/FritjofCapraTheTurningPoint/Edward%20J%20Ruppelt
%20-%20The%20Report%20on%20Unidentified%20Flying%20Objects.pdf
5 Gerald K. Haines, “CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,” Studies in Intelligence,
Vol 1, No. 1, (1997), pp. 67-84.
6 Russell Lee, “1947: Year of the Flying Saucer,” June 24, 2022,
https://www.airandsapce.si.edu/stories/editorial/1947-year-flying-saucer
7 Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 4
(Fall 1966), pp. 95-110, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832
8 Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday, 1956),
https://ia801304.us.archive.org/22/items/FritjofCapraTheTurningPoint/Edward%20J%20Ruppelt
%20-%20The%20Report%20on%20Unidentified%20Flying%20Objects.pdf; USAF
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/UFOsandUAPs/2d_a_
1.pdf
9 J. Marker, “Public Interest in UFOs Persists 50 Years after Project Blue Book Termination,” 2019;
Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall
1966), 95-110.05Page determined to be Unclassified
Review by Chief of Staff, AARO
IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C)
Date: 02/05/2025

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