AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I
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AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I (March 2024)
First page of AARO's 'Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena', which found no evidence of recovered craft or reverse-engineering programmes. Official document scan.
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 2024 ↗Public domain — US government workLicence terms ↗Jesse Michels · 1:42:14
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedRobert Salas · 1:49:52
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 1:55:15
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedOn 8 March 2024 the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office published Volume I of its report on the historical record of US government involvement with UAP, concluding it found no evidence that any investigation or program had confirmed extraterrestrial technology or that any government or contractor had recovered such material. Corpus guests criticise the office and its former director Sean Kirkpatrick.
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What was released. The 63-page volume reviewed programs from Project Sign to AATIP, said no US program had confirmed extraterrestrial technology, and attributed some witness accounts to misidentified classified aerospace projects. It reported that AARO had found no evidence for the reverse-engineering claims made to Congress. (FACT.)
What followed. Kirkpatrick had left AARO in December 2023 and published an essay in Scientific American; critics in Congress and among witnesses said interviews had been selective. Volume II was later published in 2025 without changing the conclusion. (FACT.)
What the corpus adds. The Mick West debate discusses the office and its former director speaking at events. Robert Salas argues Congress created AARO and that it is not performing, and asks what evidence it gave the Wall Street Journal for its EMP account of Malmstrom. In the 2026 skeptic debate the host distinguishes the 1994 Roswell report from AARO's. (FACT about testimony.)
Explanations offered. Supporters of the report say it is the most thorough official review; critics say it treated testimony under oath as rumor and did not examine contractor holdings. (INFERENCE.)
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 38.8719, -77.0563 exact · United States |
| Official response | AARO stated that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification, and that claims of hidden programs derived from a small group of individuals repeating unsubstantiated stories; it promised a Volume II on interviews conducted after November 2023. |
Reported by
- aaro government report author (Sean Kirkpatrick, director until December 2023)
Who spoke about it later
- Jesse Michels 1:42:14 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate ▶ 2025
- Robert Salas 1:49:52 “This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas ▶ 2025
- Jesse Michels 1:55:15 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) ▶ 2026
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate 26 January 2025
- 1:42:14 ▶ Jesse Michels
you have its former director uh Kirkpatrick speaking at some event and then Susan Goff is just kind of like trailing him. So this
- 1:42:14 ▶ interview
- 1:42:14 ▶ Jesse Michels
“This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas 12 July 2025
- 1:43:36 ▶ Robert Salas
I'd like to know what evidence Arrow has. so that they were able to tell Joel Sheckchman that this
- 1:49:52 ▶ Robert Salas
because they created Arrow, right? arrows not performing uh because
- 1:49:52 ▶ interview
- 1:43:36 ▶ Robert Salas
I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) 9 July 2026
On the map
AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I, House Oversight UAP hearing (26 July 2023), House joint subcommittee UAP hearing (13 November 2024), Wall Street Journal: "The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology", Roswell incident, AARO established… Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 1:42:14 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Jesse Michels ▶
you have its former director uh Kirkpatrick speaking at some event and then Susan Goff is just kind of like trailing him. So this
- 1:49:52 “This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas · Robert Salas ▶
because they created Arrow, right? arrows not performing uh because
- 1:43:36 “This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas · Robert Salas ▶
I'd like to know what evidence Arrow has. so that they were able to tell Joel Sheckchman that this
- 1:55:15 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) ▶
The 94 report was about Project Mosul. The 96 report was about years later they were throwing these anthropogenic dummies out the balloon thing at high altitude to test how pilots would do. And so
- Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I