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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.

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  • p. 19 …study.43 The Condon Report (April 1968) Background: Dr. Edward U. Condon, a physicist and former…
  • p. 20 …The Condon panel determined that these claims most likely were false.49 National Academy of Sciences…
  • p. 50 …pdf, https://files.ncas.org/condon; Dr. Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects…
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34 Ibid.
35 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#bluebk; NARA,
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary; Department of the
Air Force, Project Blue Book, (February 1, 1966); USAF,
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/UFOsandUAPs/2d_af
1.pdf; Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No.
4 (Fall1966), pp. 95-110., https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832; Hector Quintanilla, Jr.,
“UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (unpublished manuscript, 1974);
https://ia902205.us.archive.org/28/items/ufos-an-air-force-dilemma/quintanilla.pdf; 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; Gerald K. Haines,
“CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 1, No. 1.
36 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#bluebk; NARA,
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary; Department of the
Air Force, Project Blue Book, (February 1, 1966), USAF,
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/UFOsandUAPs/2d_af
1.pdf; Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No.
4 (Fall1966), pp. 95-110., https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832; Hector Quintanilla, Jr.,
“UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (unpublished manuscript, 1974);
https://ia902205.us.archive.org/28/items/ufos-an-air-force-dilemma/quintanilla.pdf.
37 Department of Defense, Press Release, 17 December 1969.
38 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#bluebk; NARA,
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary.
39 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#bluebk; NARA,
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary; Department of the
Air Force, Project Blue Book, (February 1, 1966), USAF,
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/UFOsandUAPs/2d_af
1.pdf; Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No.
4 (Fall1966), pp. 95-110., https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832; Hector Quintanilla, Jr.,
“UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (unpublished manuscript, 1974);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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