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Historical Record Report Volume 1 March 8 2024

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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.

  • 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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Association for Psychological Science, 2018; Fangting Liu, “The Reliability of Eyewitness
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2 Daniel Khaneman, “Thinking Fast and Slow,” Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2013; Helen Lee,
“Don’t Let Anchoring Bias Weigh Down Your Judgment,” Harvard Business Review, August
30, 2022; Richard J, Heuer, Jr., “Psychology of Intelligence Analysis,” Novinka Books, 1999;
Drake Baer, “Kahneman: Your Confirmation Bias Acts Like an Optical Illusion,” The Cut,
January 13, 2017; Ben Yagoda, “The Cognitive Bias Tricking Your Brain,” The Atlantic,
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3 https://military-history.fandom.com/wikiProject-Sign; Connors, Wendy, Project Blue Book
4 Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday, 1956),
https://ia801304.us.archive.org/22/items/FritjofCapraTheTurningPoint/Edward%20J%20Ruppelt
%20-%20The%20Report%20on%20Unidentified%20Flying%20Objects.pdf
5 Gerald K. Haines, “CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,” Studies in Intelligence,
Vol 1, No. 1, (1997), pp. 67-84.
6 Russell Lee, “1947: Year of the Flying Saucer,” June 24, 2022,
https://www.airandsapce.si.edu/stories/editorial/1947-year-flying-saucer
7 Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 4
(Fall 1966), pp. 95-110, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832
8 Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday, 1956),
https://ia801304.us.archive.org/22/items/FritjofCapraTheTurningPoint/Edward%20J%20Ruppelt
%20-%20The%20Report%20on%20Unidentified%20Flying%20Objects.pdf; USAF
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/UFOsandUAPs/2d_a_
1.pdf
9 J. Marker, “Public Interest in UFOs Persists 50 Years after Project Blue Book Termination,” 2019;
Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall
1966), 95-110.

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