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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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https://irp.fas.org/program/collect/u2.pdf; National Security Agency,
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/docs/doc_40.PDF
139 Ibid.
140 Bruce Berkowitz, A Brief History of the NRO (NRO Center for the Study of National
Reconnaissance, 2018,
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/NRO Brief History.pdf;
National Reconnaissance Office, https://www.nro.gov/History-and-Studies/Center-for-the-Study-
of-National-Reconnaissance/The-CORONA-Program/; Dwayne Day, et. al., eds., Eye in the Sky:
The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites (Smithsonian, 1998)
141 U.S. Air Force, https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/195801/avro-canada-vz-9av-avrocar/
142 Ibid.
143 American Heritage Center, “Flying Saucers—For Real! The Papers of Jack D. Pickett,”
https://ahcwyo.org/2022/04/04/flying-saucers-for-real-the-papers-of-jack-d-pickett/
144 U.S. Air Force, https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/195801/avro-canada-vz-9av-avrocar/
145 American Heritage Center, “Flying Saucers—For Real! The Papers of Jack D, Pickett,”
https://ahcwyo.org/2022/04/04/flying-saucers-for-real-the-papers-of-jack-d-pickett/
146 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/explorer-
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147 National Security Archive, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB74/
148 Central Intelligence Agency, https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/exhibit/a-12-oxcart/
149 Central Intelligence Agency, https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/exhibit/a-12-oxcart/;
National Security Agency Archive, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB74/
150 Ibid.
151 National Air and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/what-was-
mercury-program05Page 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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