All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)

A U.S. Department of Defense office established July 2022 to lead the DoD's investigation of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), including the historical record of prior government involvement. Its congressionally-mandated "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I" (February 2024, NDAA FY2023 §6802(j)) is the vault's first Tier 1 primary-document source on the AAWSAP/AATIP program, and it matters here as the authoritative institutional voice on questions — naming, funding, chronology — that prior vault captures had only been able to answer from press coverage.

References

• claim-aawsap-established-2009-aatip-never-official-program
• claim-aatip-name-persisted-post-2012-as-unofficial-activity
• claim-aawsap-22m-funded-via-fy2008-fy2010-defense-appropriations-acts
• claim-aawsap-scope-covered-12-advanced-aerospace-technology-areas
• claim-kona-blue-was-failed-dhs-successor-to-aawsap-aatip
• claim-reid-2009-sap-request-for-aawsap-declined-by-lynn-per-clapper