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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. 59 …155 National Air and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/what-was- gemini-program…
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131 Department of Energy (DoE), https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-
history/Events/1945/trinity.htm, Leslie Groves, Now It Can Be Told (Harper, 1962).
Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon and Shuster, 1986), Kai Bird and
Martin J. Sherwin
132 Department of Energy (DoE)
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1945/trinity.htm; Leslie Groves,
Now It Can Be Told (Harper, 1962); Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon
and Shuster, 1986).
133 Norman Polmar, “The Pancake that Didn't Fly,” Naval History Magazine, Volume 33,
Number 3, (June 2019); https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-
magazine/2019/june/pancake-didnt-fly
134 National Air and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/vought-v-173-
flying-pancake/nasm A19610120000; Norman Polmar, “The Pancake that Didn't Fly,” Naval
History Magazine, Volume 33, Number 3, (June 2019); https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-
history-magazine/2019/june/pancake-didnt-fly
135 Ibid.
136 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; U.S. Air
Force, The Roswell Report: Case Closed (Government Printing Office, 1995),
https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/27/2001330219/-1/-1/0/AFD-101027-030.pdf
137 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://history.nasa.gov/afspbio/part4-4.htm;
U.S. Air Force, The Roswell Report: Case Closed (Government Printing Office, 1995),
https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/27/2001330219/-1/-1/0/AFD-101027-030.pdf; U.S. Air
Force, https://www.secretsdeclassified.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2000345085/
138 Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974
(CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998), https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/books-
monographs/the-cia-and-the-u-2-program-1954-1974/; Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E.
Welzenbach, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead; Reconnaissance Program, The U-
2 and Oxcart Programs 1954-1974 (CIA History Staff, 1992),
https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/iscap/pdf/2014-004-doc01.pdf; Central
Intelligence Agency, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-
RDP62B00844R000200070131-1.pdf; Central Intelligence Agency,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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