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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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122 AARO case files
123 AARO case files
124 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. Page 93.
125 Ibid, page 91.
126 J. Allen Hyneck, “The UFO Experience,” Da Capo Press, 1977; Edward J. Ruppelt, The
Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday, 1956),
127 Ibid.
128 Pew Research Center, “Public Trust in Government: 1958-2022,” June 6, 2022.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/06/06/public-trust-in-government-1958-2022/
129 “Do Americans Believe in UFOs,” Gallup,
https://www.news/gallup/com/poll/350096/americans-beleive-ufos.aspx
130 National Archives and Records Administration,
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#bluebk; National Archives and
Records Administration, https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-
anniversary; National Archives and Records Administration,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlmwakUTo3M; 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“UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (unpublished manuscript, 1974);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; 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Quintanilla, Jr., “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (unpublished manuscript, 1974);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. 105Page 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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