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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.

  • 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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information about the program. Some interviewees claimed “verbal” and written
NDAs were administered in several instances.97
Secondary Narrative
The other narrative is that a cluster of UAP sightings that occurred in close proximity to
U.S. nuclear facilities have resulted in the malfunctioning and destruction of nuclear missiles
and a test reentry vehicle. AARO interviewed five former USAF members who served in and
around U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos at Malmstrom, Ellsworth,
Vandenberg, and Minot USAF bases between 1966 and 1977.98 Some of these individuals claim
UAP sightings near the silos, while others claim UAP disruptions to ICBM operations.
Specifically, they said the ICBM launch control facilities went offline or experienced total power
failure. Additionally, one interviewee and a USAF videographer claimed to have observed and
recorded a UAP destroying an ICBM loaded with a “dummy” warhead, mid-flight. AARO is
researching U.S. and adversarial activity related to these events, including any U.S. programs
that tested defensive ballistic missile capabilities.
Findings
AARO investigated and reached conclusions on the majority of the claims made in these
narratives. In most cases, AARO was able to locate the companies, people, and programs that
were conveyed to AARO through interviews. AARO will report the results of the unresolved
allegations in Volume II. AARO’s findings to date are as follows:
No Official UAP Nondisclosure Agreements Discovered
In the conduct of this review, and to meet the direction of Section 1673 of the NDAA for
FY 2023, AARO sent guidance and requests to DoD, IC elements, DOE, and DHS to review and
provide any NDAs pertaining to UAP (or its previous names). To date, AARO personnel have
not discovered or been notified of any NDAs that contain information related to UAP. Also,
apart from the standard NDA language contained in Title 18, Section 794 describing the death
penalty or jail time for illegally disclosing information relating to the national defense, AARO
has not discovered any NDAs containing threats to interviewees for disclosing UAP-specific
information.
Historically, most if not all NDAs contained standard language stating that the death
penalty can be applied for the crime of disclosing classified information. Title 18, Section 794,
is referenced in typical NDAs in several places in relation to the transmission of classified
information:
“Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United
States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or
transmits…information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by
imprisonment for any term of years or for life….”

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