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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 05_AARO_Historical_Record_Report

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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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  • p. 9 …The program was never approved by DHS and its supporters never provided empirical evidence to support…
  • p. 10 …AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before…
  • p. 19 …holdings, 701 were categorized as unidentified and never solved.3839 CIA Evaluation of UFOs (1964) Background…
  • p. 22 …Unlike AAWSAP, AATIP was never an official DoD program. However, after AAWSAP was cancelled, the AATIP…
  • p. 23 …These scientific papers were never thoroughly peer reviewed. • AARO has yet to uncover any other substantive…
  • p. 26 …an advisory committee that advised the government, never reached any significant conclusions.80 • Canada’s Project…
  • p. 27 …it lacked any proof, and it was never published. The first Director of05Page determined to be…
  • p. 35 …The SAP was never approved or stood up, and no data or material was transferred to…
  • p. 36 …AARO notes that Persons 1 and 4 never formally sat down with AARO to provide official…
  • p. 44 …the mid-to-late 1990s.191 It never entered production, but the research conducted on Dark…
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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.
40 Gerald K. Haines, “CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 1,
No. 1, (1997), pp. 67-84, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000838058.pdf
41 Ibid.
42 Ibid.
43 Ibid.
44 “The Condon Report,” https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0680976.pdf,
https://files.ncas.org/condon; Dr. Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying
Objects (Bantam, 1968)., University of Colorado, Boulder,
https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2021/11/05/condon-report-cu-boulders-historic-ufo-stu
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 Ibid.
50 The National Academy of Sciences Panel Assessment of the Condon Report;
https://www.apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADO688541.pdf
51 Ibid.
52 Richard C. Henry, “UFOs and NASA,” Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 2, No. 2,
(1988). https://henry.pha.jhu.edu/ufosNASA.pdf; The Washington Post,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/04/30/ufo-over-georgia-jimmy-
loggedone/080ef1c3-6ff3-41a9-a1e4-a37c54b5cbca/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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