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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 …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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3 https://military-history.fandom.com/wikiProject-Sign; Connors, Wendy, Project Blue Book
4 Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday, 1956),
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%20-%20The%20Report%20on%20Unidentified%20Flying%20Objects.pdf
5 Gerald K. Haines, “CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,” Studies in Intelligence,
Vol 1, No. 1, (1997), pp. 67-84.
6 Russell Lee, “1947: Year of the Flying Saucer,” June 24, 2022,
https://www.airandsapce.si.edu/stories/editorial/1947-year-flying-saucer
7 Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 4
(Fall 1966), pp. 95-110, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832
8 Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday, 1956),
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%20-%20The%20Report%20on%20Unidentified%20Flying%20Objects.pdf; USAF
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1.pdf
9 J. Marker, “Public Interest in UFOs Persists 50 Years after Project Blue Book Termination,” 2019;
Hector Quintanilla, Jr., “The Investigation of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall
1966), 95-110.

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