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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. 2 …16 The Robertson Panel (January 1953) ........................................................................................ 17 The Durant Report (February 1953).......................................................................................... 17 Project BLUE BOOK…
  • p. 10 …the year of the standup of the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program (AAWSAP) and Advanced…
  • p. 19 …represented technological or scientific advances outside of a terrestrial framework. The committee’s primary recommendation was…
  • p. 20 …be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.” The panel cautioned against support…
  • p. 22 …the DIA to assess long-term and over-the-horizon foreign advanced aerospace threats to the…
  • p. 27 …Even with the significant advancements in ground- and air- based sensors, the apparent inability to collect…
  • p. 35 …The oral history project will include gathering all information pertaining to the location of advanced aerospace…
  • p. 37 …represent technological advances that could pose counterintelligence and national security threats. Secrecy The USG’s need…
  • p. 38 …A similar challenge remains today, even with the advancement in technology. Most UAP sightings have no…
  • p. 39 …witnessed new technological advancements and testing and reporting them as UFOs. The below examples represent formerly…
  • p. 43 …The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) oversaw the development of HAVE Blue in the mid…
  • p. 44 …The prototype served as the basis for a more advanced design under DARPA.176 It was…
  • p. 45 45 Polecat Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Program organization, also known as “Skunk Works” developed the…
  • p. 60 …https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/from-space-to-museum-showcase- the-space-shuttles-final-mission…
  • p. 61 …Advanced Research Projects Agency, “Predator.” https://www.darpa.mil/about- us/timeline/predator; Strickland, “The Early…
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152 Robert A. McDonald and Sharon K. Moreno, Raising the Periscope: Grab and Poppy:
America’s Early ELINT Satellites (NRO History Office, 2005).
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/docs/prog-hist-03.pdf
153 Robert A. McDonald and Sharon K. Moreno, Raising the Periscope: Grab and Poppy:
America’s Early ELINT Satellites (NRO History Office, 2005).
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/docs/prog-hist-03.pdf; U.S.
Naval Research Laboratory, https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Media/News/Article/3074375/grab-i-first-
operational-intelligence-satellite/
154 Ibid.
155 National Air and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/what-was-
gemini-program
156 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://www.nasa.gov/gemini/; National Air
and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/what-was-gemini-program
157 National Archives and Records Administration, Kennedy Library,
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/address-to-joint-session-of-
congress-may-25-1961
158 National Air and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/topics/space/apollo-
program; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://www.nasa.gov/learning-
resources/for-kids-and-students/what-was-the-apollo-program-grades-5-8/; National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/missions.html
159 Robert A. McDonald and Sharon K. Moreno, Raising the Periscope: Grab and Poppy:
America’s Early ELINT Satellites (NRO History Office, 2005),
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/docs/prog-hist-03.pdf
160 Bruce Berkowitz, “A Brief History of the NRO” (NRO Center for the Study of National
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/NRO_Brief_History.pdf
161 Ibid.
162 National Reconnaissance Office,
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/gambhex/Docs/GAM_1_Fact_sheet.pdf

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