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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 …17 Project BLUE BOOK (March 1952–December 1969) ............................................................. 18 CIA Evaluation of UFOs (1964) ............................................................................................... 19 O…
  • p. 10 …investigation programs since the termination of Project BLUE BOOK in 1969. • Common contextual factors between earlier…
  • p. 13 …Projects SAUCER/SIGN, GRUDGE, and BLUE BOOK, the DoD UAP Task Force (UAPTF) led by the…
  • p. 16 …UFO reports in Project GRUDGE’s holdings and those in Project BLUE BOOK.23 BMI released…
  • p. 18 …Cabell, established Project BLUE BOOK to study UFO phenomena. Based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base…
  • p. 19 …National Archives to examine the records from the USAF’s Project BLUE BOOK, which spanned from…
  • p. 20 …Project BLUE BOOK was not aware of this claim. The USAF and USN found no incident…
  • p. 23 …reviewing new cases and much older Project BLUE BOOK cases, operating debriefing and investigatory teams, and…
  • p. 28 28 Project BLUE BOOK, Capt Edward Ruppelt, said that all but a couple copies of this…
  • p. 38 …Capt Ruppelt, the first director of Project BLUE BOOK, noted that the inability to collect the…
  • p. 39 …AARO’s review of Project BLUE BOOK cases shows a spike in reported UAP sightings from…
  • p. 46 …3 https://military-history.fandom.com/wikiProject-Sign; Connors, Wendy, Project Blue Book 4 Edward J…
  • p. 47 …https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary; Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report…
  • p. 49 …articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary; Department of the Air Force, Project Blue Book, (February 1…
  • p. 53 …https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary; Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report…
  • p. 56 …https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th- anniversary; National Archives and Records Administration…
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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);

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