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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 05_AARO_Historical_Record_Report
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This is Volume I of the Historical Record Report from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated February 2024 and released in full in February 2025. It reviews US government UAP investigations since 1945, from Project SIGN and Blue Book through the Condon Report, AATIP and the UAP Task Force. AARO found no evidence that any sighting involved extraterrestrial technology or that anyone reverse-engineered alien craft. It says the claims come largely from circular reporting, and it names KONA BLUE as a proposed program that was never approved.
“USGS”29 pages
- 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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THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement
with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)
Volume I
February 202405All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office
Chief of Staff, AARO
Date: 02/05/2025
Released in Full:___X__; Released in Part: ______
Authority: FY24 NDAA, now codified at 44 U.S.C. 2107
Case Number: 330UAP000005Page determined to be Unclassified
Review by Chief of Staff, AARO
IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841 (a)(1)(C)
Date: 02/05/2025
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