Roswell UFO Crash, December 30, 1947 — FBI File
Roswell crash: AARO reviewed USG efforts involving UFOs/UAP since 1945, identifying approximately two dozen separate investigative efforts. These ranged from long-term programs like Projects SAUCER/SIGN, GRUDGE, and BLUE BOOK, to more recent initiatives such as the DoD UAP Task F
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 13 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1945 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
AARO reviewed USG efforts involving UFOs/UAP since 1945, identifying approximately two dozen separate investigative efforts. These ranged from long-term programs like Projects SAUCER/SIGN, GRUDGE, and BLUE BOOK, to more recent initiatives such as the DoD UAP Task Force and AARO itself. Short-term projects and reviews of specific cases, like the Roswell reports, were also included.
Witnesses on file: AARO.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.