1947 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P47)
Gerald K. Haines wrote about the CIA's role in studying UFOs from 1947 to 1990. This study began in 1947 and continued for several decades.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 47 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Gerald K. Haines wrote about the CIA’s role in studying UFOs from 1947 to 1990. This study began in 1947 and continued for several decades.
Witnesses on file: Gerald K. Haines.
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.