Official position · S-032
The first volume of the historical report concludes that no government investigation has confirmed that a UAP sighting represented extraterrestrial technology, that the claims about people, places, tests and documents linked to reverse engineering are inaccurate, and that there is no evidence of classified programs not reported to Congress. It adds that an intelligence controlled access program, extended in 2021 to UAP reverse engineering, never recovered or analyzed any craft, attributes the allegations to circular reporting from a group linked to AAWSAP/AATIP, and cites Project Mogul, Gambit and U-2 among the sources of misinterpreted sightings.
AARO (Department of Defense) · Presented by Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder · Mar 8, 2024
Legacy program and recoveries
What it denies and what it leaves open
It is a finding of absence of evidence “to date”: the report does not claim to have examined every special access program and does not assess the witnesses who refused to cooperate. A second volume, announced for late 2025, does not appear to have been published as of October 31, 2026.
- Original words
has not discovered any empirical evidence that any sighting of a UAP represented off-world technology
- Who disputes it
- Elizondo called it intentionally dishonest, inaccurate and dangerously misleading; Christopher Mellon observes that many witnesses did not trust AARO, and The Debrief pointed out factual errors in it, such as Reid's home state and the name and date of the Battelle study.
- Concerns
- David Grusch, Luis Elizondo
Sources
- AARO, Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with UAP, Vol. I (PDF) (primary source)
- Space.com on AARO's historical report (press)
- The Debrief on AARO's historical report, March 9, 2024 (press, pro-disclosure)
- Justin Snead: summary of AARO's historical report (2024) (analysis)
On this site
People 2
Claims 1
- Dylan Borland: Claims under oath that, a few years after a triangle sighting at the Langley base in 2012, through an… Unverifiable
Documents 1
- AARO's Historical Record Report, vol. 1 (March 2024) Original available
Where the claims come from 7
- The United States holds intact or partially intact craft of non-human origin, the product of a retrieval…
- Non-human biological remains, that is, bodies or “biologics,” were recovered together with the craft.
- Lockheed Martin holds material of non-human origin and tried to transfer it to the AAWSAP program and to…
- A “Legacy Program” exists, that is, a set of “legacy” programs that for about eighty years has been…
- The United States has been engaged for decades in a secret “cold war” with rival powers, in particular…
- Those involved in the programs or who speak about them have suffered threats, retaliation, violence and even…
- The reverse engineering of recovered craft has contributed to the development of U.S. aerospace and military…
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