Documents / Report
The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released this report in February 2024. It is Volume I of its Historical Record Report on U.S. Government involvement with UAP. AARO reviewed official investigations since 1945, searched archives and conducted about 30 interviews. It found no evidence that any sighting represented extraterrestrial technology, and no evidence that the government or private companies reverse-engineer such technology. The report attributes such claims to misidentified authentic programs and circular reporting.
“The Advance”15 pages
3 Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) / Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Management Committee (AOIMEXEC) (November 2021-June 2022) ............................................................................ 24 UAP Independent Study Team (UAPIST) (June 2022-September 2023)................................. 25 All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) (Established July 15, 2022) ....................... 25 Foreign and Academic Investigatory Efforts ............................................................................ 26 Key Findings ............................................................................................................................. 27 SECTION V: Assessment of Interviewee Claims of USG Involvement in Hidden UAP Programs ......... 28 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 28 Primary Narrative ...................................................................................................................... 28 Secondary Narrative .................................................................................................................. 30 Findings............................................................................................................................................... 30 No Official UAP Nondisclosure Agreements Discovered .................................................................. 30 Former CIA Official Involvement in Movement of Alleged Material Recovered from a UAP Crash Denied on the Record.......................................................................................................................... 31 The 1961 Special National Intelligence Estimate on “UFOs” Assessed to be Not Authentic ............ 31 Aliens Observing Material Test a Likely Misunderstanding of an Authentic, Non-UAP Program Activity ............................................................................................................................................... 31 Allegation that a Former U.S. military Service Member Touched an Extraterrestrial Spacecraft ...... 32 The UAP with Peculiar Characteristics Refers to an Authentic, Non-UAP-Related SAP.................. 32 Extraterrestrial Disclosure Study Confirmed; Not White House-Sponsored ...................................... 32 Aerospace Companies Denied Involvement in Recovering Extraterrestrial Craft.............................. 32 Sample of Alleged Alien Spacecraft is an Ordinary, Terrestrial, Metal Alloy ................................... 32 AARO Investigating Unresolved Historical Nuclear-Related UAP Cases ......................................... 33 SECTION VI: Investigation into Named USG Sensitive Programs .......................................................... 33 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 33 Process for Protecting Sensitive Programs while Investigating Interviewee Claims................ 34 Findings ..................................................................................................................................... 34 One Private Program Mistaken for USG Program .............................................................................. 34 KONA BLUE: A Proposed UAP Recovery and Reverse-Engineering Program ............................... 34 Unnecessary IC Program Expansion................................................................................................... 35 Nexus of Proponents of the USG UAP Reverse-Engineering Allegation .......................................... 35 SECTION VII: Historical Context of UAP Investigatory Efforts Since 1945 .......................................... 36 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 36 Commonalities of 20th and 21st Century UAP Investigations ................................................... 37
Report, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 63 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.