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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 05_AARO_Historical_Record_Report
Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. · 2023 · 63 pages · text from the file's own layer
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.
“Works”14 pages
- p. 9 …approved for access to nor did they work
on these efforts—which likely resulted in misinterpretation…
- p. 13 …entities on named companies alleged to have worked with
the USG on UAP recovery and alleged…
- p. 14 …The staff seemed confident that after a few months of
work they could reach a conclusion…
- p. 15 …The USAF did not stop collecting and analyzing reports of UFOs; rather, it
folded that work…
- p. 17 …of OSI on the Robertson Panel’s work and findings. Durant’s memorandum provided a brief…
- p. 23 …outlined in the contract’s
statement of work, the selected private sector organization conducted UFO research…
- p. 24 …Its work also helped calibrate sensors to improve the quality of data collected. Its
methods and…
- p. 25 …a secure interviewee debriefing program, and is working to standardize UAP
collection and reporting across the…
- p. 26 …77
• The United Kingdom’s Flying Saucer Working Party (1950–1951) concluded that
“flying saucers did…
- p. 29 …The officer told the interviewee that approximately
150 individuals were working on the program and that…
- p. 36 …Although AARO
continues to conduct interviews, research programs, and pursue investigatory leads, AARO’s
work has…
- p. 40 …Specifically, Project
Mogul scientists worked on developing high-altitude balloons that would carry sensors capable
of…
- p. 45 45
Polecat
Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Program organization, also known as
“Skunk Works” developed the…
- p. 62 …com/node/17136/pdf;
“From the Skunk Works, a New Polecat Emerges,” Air & Space Forces Magazine…
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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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