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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. 2 …16 The Robertson Panel (January 1953) ........................................................................................ 17 The Durant Report (February 1953).......................................................................................... 17 Project BLUE BOOK…
  • p. 10 …the year of the standup of the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program (AAWSAP) and Advanced…
  • p. 19 …represented technological or scientific advances outside of a terrestrial framework. The committee’s primary recommendation was…
  • p. 20 …be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.” The panel cautioned against support…
  • p. 22 …the DIA to assess long-term and over-the-horizon foreign advanced aerospace threats to the…
  • p. 27 …Even with the significant advancements in ground- and air- based sensors, the apparent inability to collect…
  • p. 35 …The oral history project will include gathering all information pertaining to the location of advanced aerospace…
  • p. 37 …represent technological advances that could pose counterintelligence and national security threats. Secrecy The USG’s need…
  • p. 38 …A similar challenge remains today, even with the advancement in technology. Most UAP sightings have no…
  • p. 39 …witnessed new technological advancements and testing and reporting them as UFOs. The below examples represent formerly…
  • p. 43 …The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) oversaw the development of HAVE Blue in the mid…
  • p. 44 …The prototype served as the basis for a more advanced design under DARPA.176 It was…
  • p. 45 45 Polecat Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Program organization, also known as “Skunk Works” developed the…
  • p. 60 …https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/from-space-to-museum-showcase- the-space-shuttles-final-mission…
  • p. 61 …Advanced Research Projects Agency, “Predator.” https://www.darpa.mil/about- us/timeline/predator; Strickland, “The Early…
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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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