1962 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P42)
The Poppy satellite system, a successor to GRAB, was developed to collect Soviet radar emissions. Seven Poppy missions were launched between December 1962 and December 1971. The program was declassified in 2004.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 42 of aaro historical record vol1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1962 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The Poppy satellite system, a successor to GRAB, was developed to collect Soviet radar emissions. Seven Poppy missions were launched between December 1962 and December 1971. The program was declassified in 2004.
Witnesses on file: National 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.