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AARO Historical Record Report Volume 1

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

The Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued Volume I of its Historical Record Report in February 2024. It reviews U.S. Government UAP investigations since 1945, drawing on classified and unclassified archives and about 30 interviews. AARO found no evidence that any sighting represented extraterrestrial technology and no empirical evidence of reverse-engineering programs, attributing such claims to misidentified sensitive programs, the unapproved KONA BLUE proposal and circular reporting. It also found an alleged crash sample to be an ordinary terrestrial alloy.

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  • p. 2 …Accounts of USG UAP Investigatory Programs Since 1945 ............................................. 13 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 13 Project SAUCER (1946/1947–January…
  • p. 3 …Assessment of Interviewee Claims of USG Involvement in Hidden UAP Programs ......... 28 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 28 Primary Narrative…
  • p. 6 …In completing this report, AARO reviewed all official USG investigatory efforts since 1945, researched classified and…
  • p. 7 …Executive Summary AARO found no evidence that any USG investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review…
  • p. 8 …the testing of extraterrestrial technology at a USG facility almost certainly was an observation of an…
  • p. 9 …AARO assesses that the inaccurate claim that the USG is reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology and is…
  • p. 10 10 • The aggregate findings of all USG investigations to date have not found even one case…
  • p. 11 …AARO interviewed approximately 30 people who claimed to have insight into alleged USG involvement in off…
  • p. 12 …These LOEs were to: • Conduct open-source research on claims (through historical interviews) about USG investigations…
  • p. 13 …Accounts of USG UAP Investigatory Programs Since 1945 Summary AARO reviewed official USG efforts involving UFOs…
  • p. 17 …They recommended the USG use various channels to debunk UFO reports and suggested monitoring domestic UFO…
  • p. 20 …scientific research in terms of academic or USG-sponsored research and in secondary schools. The panel…
  • p. 21 …Advisor Sandy Berger to determine if the USG held aliens or alien technology. President Clinton said…
  • p. 22 22 up” by the USG. Rather, the materials recovered near Roswell were consistent with a balloon…
  • p. 24 …national security; and (5) consistent consolidation of reports from across the USG, standardized reporting, increased collection…
  • p. 25 …Simons Foundation and included members from the USG, academia, and the private sector.74 Results: NASA…
  • p. 27 …Key Findings • None of these investigations (including USG, foreign, and U.S. academic efforts) reached the…
  • p. 28 …Assessment of Interviewee Claims of USG Involvement in Hidden UAP Programs Summary As of September 17…
  • p. 31 …possession of the resultant material by the USG and the private sector, and the attempt to…
  • p. 32 …off-world technology in possession of the USG, a private contractor, or any other foreign or…
  • p. 33 …Investigation into Named USG Sensitive Programs Summary AARO investigated numerous named, and described, but unnamed programs…
  • p. 34 …Findings One Private Program Mistaken for USG Program AARO determined that the following alleged USG program…
  • p. 35 …KONA BLUE’s advocates were convinced that the USG was hiding UAP technologies. They believed that…
  • p. 36 …It has determined that modern allegations that the USG is hiding off-world technology and beings…
  • p. 37 …Secrecy The USG’s need to maintain secrecy to protect classified information about intelligence sources and…
  • p. 38 …Perceived Deception There is a conviction among some Americans that the USG has conducted a deception…
  • p. 39 …population that the USG has not been truthful regarding knowledge of extraterrestrial craft.128 Popular Culture…
  • p. 41 …USAF took over the project in 1958 when Avro offered it to the USG, when it…
  • p. 43 …The USG acquired and operated a number of systems for a range of missions including intelligence…
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Table of Contents
SECTION I: Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 6
SECTION II: Executive Summary .............................................................................................................. 7
SECTION III: Scope & Assumptions ........................................................................................................ 11
Scope ......................................................................................................................................... 11
Assumptions .............................................................................................................................. 11
Note on “UAP” Nomenclature .................................................................................................. 12
Congressional Oversight ........................................................................................................... 12
AARO’s HR2 Program of Analysis .......................................................................................... 12
SECTION IV: Accounts of USG UAP Investigatory Programs Since 1945 ............................................. 13
Summary ................................................................................................................................... 13
Project SAUCER (1946/1947–January 1948)........................................................................... 13
Project SIGN (January 1948–February 1949) ........................................................................... 14
Project GRUDGE (Original Organization) (February–December 1949) ................................. 15
Project TWINKLE (Summer 1949–Summer 1950).................................................................. 15
Project GRUDGE (Reestablishment) (October 1951–March 1952) ......................................... 15
Project BEAR (Late 1951–Late 1954) ...................................................................................... 16
CIA Special Study Group (1952) .............................................................................................. 16
The Robertson Panel (January 1953) ........................................................................................ 17
The Durant Report (February 1953).......................................................................................... 17
Project BLUE BOOK (March 1952–December 1969) ............................................................. 18
CIA Evaluation of UFOs (1964) ............................................................................................... 19
O’Brien Committee (1964) ....................................................................................................... 19
The Condon Report (April 1968) .............................................................................................. 19
National Academy of Sciences Assessment of the Condon Report (Late 1968) ...................... 20
Carter Administration Tasking to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
(1977) ........................................................................................................................................ 21
Roswell Investigations/Inquiries (1992-2001) .......................................................................... 21
Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program (AAWSAP) (2009–2012)/
Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)................................................. 22
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) (August 2020-November 2021) ......... 24
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (June 2021) .................................. 24

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