AARO releases Historical Record Report, Volume I

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office releases the first volume of its congressionally directed historical record of U.S. government involvement with UAP. The 63-page report concludes that no verifiable evidence has been found of extraterrestrial technology in U.S. government possession.

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Record type: Report
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Named witnesses: 0
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On 8 March 2024, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released the unclassified version of Volume I of its 'Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP),' a sixty-three-page document covering the period 1945 to October 2023, prepared in response to the FY2023 NDAA.

The report concluded that AARO had found 'no verifiable evidence' that the U.S. government or private industry has ever had access to extraterrestrial technology, that no UAP report investigated had ever been confirmed to represent off-world technology, and that prior official secrecy around classified U.S. and adversary aerospace programs likely accounted for a substantial fraction of historical UAP misperception.

The report was widely characterized by current and former officials including Christopher Mellon and Lue Elizondo as inadequate in scope and methodology, and several members of Congress publicly stated their intent to revisit the historical record in subsequent volumes. AARO has stated that Volume II is in preparation.

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