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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 2024-03-08 · 63 pages · text from the file's own layer

The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued this February 2024 report, Volume I of its Historical Record Report. It reviews U.S. government UAP investigations since 1945, drawing on archives and about 30 interviews. AARO found no evidence that any investigation confirmed extraterrestrial technology and no empirical evidence of hidden reverse-engineering programs. It attributes such claims largely to circular reporting and misidentified classified programs, and it describes KONA BLUE and a metal sample found to be an ordinary terrestrial alloy.

  • p. 2 …13 Project SIGN (January 1948–February 1949) ........................................................................... 14 Project GRUDGE (Original Organization) (February–December 1949) ................................. 15…
  • p. 13 …Project GRUDGE was the name given to two related, but different organizations; the second—reorganized Project…
  • p. 14 …the staff at Project SIGN leading to the establishment of Project GRUDGE, which some sources claim…
  • p. 15 15 Project GRUDGE (Original Organization) (February–December 1949) Background: Project SIGN was renamed Project GRUDGE in…
  • p. 16 …The new Project GRUDGE reviewed all of the previous cases in Project SIGN, old Project GRUDGE…
  • p. 18 …Ruppelt (the former Director of the reorganized Project GRUDGE), Capt Charles Hardin, Capt George T. Gregory…
  • p. 27 …Similarly, at least the first iteration of Project GRUDGE sought to resolve all cases and prohibited…
  • p. 47 …19-142520-690; Project Grudge Report, https://www.academia.edu/43389931/Project_GRUDGE_Report_1949USA 16…
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34 Ibid.
35 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#bluebk; NARA,
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary; Department of the
Air Force, Project Blue Book, (February 1, 1966); USAF,
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/UFOsandUAPs/2d_af
1.pdf; Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No.
4 (Fall1966), pp. 95-110., https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832; Hector Quintanilla, Jr.,
“UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (unpublished manuscript, 1974);
https://ia902205.us.archive.org/28/items/ufos-an-air-force-dilemma/quintanilla.pdf; 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; Gerald K. Haines,
“CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 1, No. 1.
36 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#bluebk; NARA,
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary; Department of the
Air Force, Project Blue Book, (February 1, 1966), USAF,
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/UFOsandUAPs/2d_af
1.pdf; Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No.
4 (Fall1966), pp. 95-110., https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832; Hector Quintanilla, Jr.,
“UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (unpublished manuscript, 1974);
https://ia902205.us.archive.org/28/items/ufos-an-air-force-dilemma/quintanilla.pdf.
37 Department of Defense, Press Release, 17 December 1969.
38 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#bluebk; NARA,
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary.
39 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#bluebk; NARA,
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary; Department of the
Air Force, Project Blue Book, (February 1, 1966), USAF,
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/UFOsandUAPs/2d_af
1.pdf; Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No.
4 (Fall1966), pp. 95-110., https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832; Hector Quintanilla, Jr.,
“UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (unpublished manuscript, 1974);

Cases discussed

  • Roswell Incident 1947
    Roswell Investigations/Inquiries (1992-2001); Project Mogul

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Report, from the aaro collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 63 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.