1962 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P4)
Poppy was a U.S. satellite program from 1962 to 1977 that involved launching satellites to monitor Soviet missile launches and conduct other intelligence-gathering activities.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 4 of aaro historical record vol1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1962-1977 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Poppy was a U.S. satellite program from 1962 to 1977 that involved launching satellites to monitor Soviet missile launches and conduct other intelligence-gathering activities.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
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.