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AARO Historical Record Report, Volume 1

Congress asked AARO to review the government's entire UFO history. Volume 1 walks through Blue Book, the Robertson Panel, the Condon study, AAWSAP and AATIP, and claims of crashed craft and reverse engineering, and finds no evidence that any government programme recovered alien technology.

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Why it matters

The Pentagon's official answer to the "secret crash retrieval" claims made in Congress in 2023. Plenty of people dispute it.

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