AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I
Department of Defense / AARO
2024
1945–2023
A congressionally mandated review of every U.S. government UAP program since 1945, including interviews with personnel who claimed knowledge of recovered non-human craft.
Why it was classified
Source material spanned dozens of compartmented programs; the unclassified volume is a distillation of a much larger classified annex.
Why it matters
It represents the government formally answering the question in writing — and the fights over what the classified annex still withholds define the current UAP debate.