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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. 9 …The program was never approved by DHS and its supporters never provided empirical evidence to support…
  • p. 10 …AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before…
  • p. 19 …holdings, 701 were categorized as unidentified and never solved.3839 CIA Evaluation of UFOs (1964) Background…
  • p. 22 …Unlike AAWSAP, AATIP was never an official DoD program. However, after AAWSAP was cancelled, the AATIP…
  • p. 23 …These scientific papers were never thoroughly peer reviewed. • AARO has yet to uncover any other substantive…
  • p. 26 …an advisory committee that advised the government, never reached any significant conclusions.80 • Canada’s Project…
  • p. 27 …the basis that it lacked any proof, and it was never published. The first Director of
  • p. 35 …The SAP was never approved or stood up, and no data or material was transferred to…
  • p. 36 …AARO notes that Persons 1 and 4 never formally sat down with AARO to provide official…
  • p. 44 …the mid-to-late 1990s.191 It never entered production, but the research conducted on Dark…
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163 National Reconnaissance Office, https://www.nro.gov/About-NRO/history/more-historical-
programs/
164 National Museum of the United States Air Force,
https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/195925/gambit-1-kh-7-film-recovery-vehicle/
165 National Reconnaissance Office, https://www.nro.gov/About-NRO/history/more-historical-
programs/
166 National Museum of the United States Air Force,
https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-
Sheets/Display/Article/195921/hexagon-kh-9-reconnaissance-satellite/
167 National Reconnaissance Office,
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/gambhex/Docs/GAM_1_Fact_sheet.pdf
168 The National Reconnaissance Office, https://www.nro.gov/About-nro/history/more-historical-
programs
169 National Air and Space Museum, https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/topics/space/space-
shuttle-program
170 Gamillo, E. (2023). “From Space to Museum Showcase: the Shuttles’ Final Mission.”
Astronomy. https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/from-space-to-museum-showcase-
the-space-shuttles-final-mission/
171 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-
space/nasa-day-of-remembrance-pays-tribute-to-fallen-astronauts/
172 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), https://www.darpa.mil/about-
us/timeline/have-blue
173 U.S. Air Force, https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104482/b-2-spirit/
174 Department of Defense, https://www.mda.mil/about/history.html; Department of State,
http::2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/rd/104253.htm
175 Frank Strickland, “The Early Evolution of the Predator Drone,” Studies in Intelligence 57, no.
1 (2013): 1-6. https://www.cia.gov/static/Early-Evolution-of-Predator.pdf; Defense Advanced

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