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.
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4 International Security Environment and Technological Surprise ....................................................... 37 Secrecy ................................................................................................................................................ 37 Public Interest ..................................................................................................................................... 38 Alleged Bureaucratic Barriers ............................................................................................................. 38 Insufficient Data and Information ....................................................................................................... 38 Perceived Deception ........................................................................................................................... 38 Differences between 20th and 21st Century UAP Investigations ............................................... 39 Decreased Public Trust ....................................................................................................................... 39 Popular Culture ................................................................................................................................... 39 SECTION VIII: Testing and Development of U.S. National Security and Space Programs Most Likely Accounted for Some Portion of UAP Sightings ......................................................................................... 39 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 39 Manhattan Project (August 1942) ............................................................................................. 40 V-173/XF5U-1 “Flying Pancake” (1942) ................................................................................. 40 Project Mogul (1947-1949) ....................................................................................................... 40 Project High Dive (1950s)......................................................................................................... 40 Project Aquatone/Dragon Lady (1954) ..................................................................................... 41 WS-117L/CORONA (Late 1956) ............................................................................................. 41 VZ-9AV Avrocar/Project Silver Bug (1958) ............................................................................ 41 Explorer 1 (January 1958) ......................................................................................................... 41 Oxcart/A-12/SR-71 (1958) ........................................................................................................ 41 Project Mercury (1958-1963) .................................................................................................... 42 TATTLETALE/GRAB (September 1960)................................................................................ 42 Project Gemini (1961-1966)...................................................................................................... 42 Project Apollo (1961-1972) ...................................................................................................... 42 Poppy (1962-1977).................................................................................................................... 42 Gambit (1963-1971) .................................................................................................................. 42 Hexagon (1971- 1986) .............................................................................................................. 42 Space Transportation System/Space Shuttle (1972 - 2011) ...................................................... 43 HAVE Blue/F-117A Nighthawk/TACIT Blue (1975) .............................................................. 43 Advanced Technology Bomber/B-2 Spirit (1980) .................................................................... 43 Strategic Defense Initiative (March 1983) ................................................................................ 43 Advent of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 1980s-Present............................................................... 43
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.