1961 UAP Sighting — AARO Records
A Special National Intelligence Estimate on UFOs from 1961 was assessed to be not authentic. This suggests a review of older intelligence findings related to unidentified flying objects.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 3 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1961 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
A Special National Intelligence Estimate on UFOs from 1961 was assessed to be not authentic. This suggests a review of older intelligence findings related to unidentified flying objects.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: discounted by investigators. 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.