1960 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P42)
The United States launched the TATTLETALE reconnaissance satellite into space in early 1958. Its mission was to intercept Soviet radar signals. The program was later renamed GRAB (Galactic Radiation and Background) after the project became public.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 42 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated September 1960 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The United States launched the TATTLETALE reconnaissance satellite into space in early 1958. Its mission was to intercept Soviet radar signals. The program was later renamed GRAB (Galactic Radiation and Background) after the project became public.
Witnesses on file: Naval Research Laboratory.
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.