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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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65 Defense Intelligence Agency, https://www.dia.mil/FOIA/FOIA-Electronic-Reading-Room;
New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-
reid.html.
66 Memorandum, from the Under Secretary of Defense James Clapper to the Deputy Secretary of
Defense, 17 November 2009.
67 Review of Report from a private sector organization, July 30 2009.
68 Ibid.
69 Department of Defense,
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-
unidentifiedaerial-phenomena-task-force/
70 AARO discussions with UAPTF leadership.
71 Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena, Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
72 Department of Defense,
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2853121/dod-announces-
theestablishment-of-the-airborne-object-identification-and-manag/; DoD,
https://media.defense.gov/2021/Nov/23/2002898596/-1/-1/0/ESTABLISHMENT-OF-
THEAIRBORNE-OBJECT-IDENTIFICATION-AND-MANAGEMENT-
SYNCHRONIZATIONGROUP PDF
73 Ibid.
74 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://science.nasa.gov/uap; National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://science.nasa.gov/science-
red/s3fspublic/atoms/files/UAPIST%20Terms%20of%20Reference%20-%20Signed.pdf;
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-announces-
unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-study-teammembers/
75 Department of Defense,
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3100053/dod-announces-
theestablishment-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office/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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