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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. 44 …conduct reconnaissance missions in high-threat areas. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and DARPA developed Dark Star in…
  • p. 45 45 Polecat Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Program organization, also known as “Skunk Works” developed the…
  • p. 62 …194 Lockheed Martin, “Popular Science Awards Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Polecat UAV Best…
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186 U.S. Air Force, “MQ-9 Reaper,” https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/104470/mq-9-reaper/
187 Ibid.
188 Ibid.
189 U.S. Air Force, “MQ-9 Reaper,” https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/104470/mq-9-reaper/; Predator RQ-1/MQ-1/MQ-9 Reaper UAV, Air
Force Technology, https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/predator-uav/
190 U.S. Department of Defense, “Air Force to Retire MQ-1 Predator Drone, Transition to MQ-9
Reaper,” https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/1095612/air-force-to-
retire-mq-1-predator-drone-transition-to-mq-9-reaper/; Predator RQ-1/MQ-1/MQ-9 Reaper
UAV, Air Force Technology, https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/predator-uav/
191 U.S. Air Force, https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/195774/lockehhed-martin-rq-3-darkstar/;
https://www.airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/lockheed-martin-boeing-rq-3a-dark-
star/nasm_A20070230000; https://www.armypress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-
institute/csi-books/OP37.pdf
192 Ibid.
193 Ibid.
194 Lockheed Martin, “Popular Science Awards Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Polecat
UAV Best of What’s New for 2006.” https://investors.lockheedmartin.com/node/17136/pdf;
“From the Skunk Works, a New Polecat Emerges,” Air & Space Forces Magazine,
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/1005polecat/
195 Ibid.
196 U.S. Air Force, “RQ-170 Sentinel.” https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/2796993/rq-170-sentinel/
197 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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