Editing All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (section)

==== 2024 AARO report ====
[[File:AARO Historical Record Report Volume 1 2024.pdf|thumb|250px|Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume 1]]
On March 6, 2024, the DOD cleared for publication the AARO "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume 1", which according to the Washington Post, "covered all official U.S. investigatory efforts from 1945 to the present and examined classified and unclassified government archives."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Shane |last2=Lamothe |first2=Dan |title=Pentagon report finds no evidence of alien visits, hidden spacecraft |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309014004/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/08/no-ufo-aliens-pentagon-report/ |website=The Washington Post |access-date=9 March 2024}}</ref>  

The report noted a “proliferation of television programmes, books, movies, and the vast amount of internet and social media content centred on UAP-related topics“ but concluded that official investigations had not found any empirical evidence that reported sightings represented “off--world technology” or any classified program that had not been reported to Congress, hidden alien technology or extraterrestrial artifacts.<ref name="Barnes">{{cite web |last1=Barnes |first1=Julian |title=Pentagon Review Finds No Evidence of Alien Cover-Up |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-alien-review.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU0.70yG.kYdcqyjW8N6m&smid=url-share |website=nytimes.com |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=9 March 2024}}</ref><ref name="Wendling">{{cite web |last1=Wendling |first1=Mike |title=US says UFO sightings likely secret military tests |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68515515 |website=bbc.com |access-date=9 March 2024}}</ref>

The report detailed 20th-century UAP investigations, including Projects Saucer, [[Project Sign|Sign]], [[Project Grudge|Grudge]], Twinkle, and [[Project Blue Book|Blue Book]]; more recent investigations included [[AAWSAP]], [[AATIP]], UAPTF, and AARO itself.<ref>Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), pp 13-25</ref>  The report revealed for the first time that elements within the US government had proposed to create a Special Access Program under the Department of Homeland Security, to be named "Kona Blue", to reverse engineer any extraterrestrial craft that came into its possession.  Advocates of the proposal "were convinced that the U.S. government was hiding UAP technologies", but DHS leaders rejected the proposal as "without merit";  AARO's report similarly rejected the claims of Kona Blue's advocates.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Seligman |first1=Lara |last2=Hudson |first2=Lee |title=US once considered a program to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft, Pentagon report reveals |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/08/us-alien-spacecraft-program-pentagon-report-00146013 |access-date=9 March 2024 |work=Politico |date=8 March 2024}}</ref>