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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.

  • p. 2 …19 The Condon Report (April 1968) .............................................................................................. 19 National Academy of Sciences Assessment of the Condon Report…
  • p. 13 …Report, and the University of Colorado’s Condon Report (contracted by the USAF). Some of these…
  • 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. 21 …new significant findings on UFOs since the Condon Report. Results: Five months later, NASA responded by…
  • p. 50 …44 “The Condon Report,” https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0680976.pdf, https://files.ncas.org…
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53 Presidential Papers of the United States, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PPP-1995-
book2/html/PPP-1995-book2-doc-pg1813-2.htm; “Bill Clinton Phones Home on Aliens,”
Politico, Tal Kopan, April 3, 2014; The Washington Post,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/08/the-long-strange-history-of-
johnpodestas-space-alien-obsession/; New York Times,
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-aliens.html
54 Government Accountability Office, https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-95-187.pdf
55 U.S. Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert
(Government Printing Office, 1995), https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA326148.pdf
56 Ibid.
57 U.S. Air Force, https://www.af.mil/The-Roswell-Report; USAF, The Roswell Report: Case
Closed (Government Printing Office, 1994),
https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/27/2001330219/-1/-1/0/AFD-101027-030.pdf
58 Ibid.
59 U.S. Air Force, https://www.af.mil/The-Roswell-Report; USAF, The Roswell Report: Case
Closed (Government Printing Office, 1994),
https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/27/2001330219/-1/-1/0/AFD-101027-030.pdf; U.S. Air
Force, The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Government Printing
Office, 1995), https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA326148.pdf
60 Government Accountability Office, https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-95-187.pdf
61 Info Memo, From Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director to the Undersecretary of
Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, December 1, 2010.
62 Info Memo, From Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director to the Undersecretary of
Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, December 1, 2010.
63 Review of Report from a private sector organization 1, July 30, 2009.
64 Ibid.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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