1964 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P19)
The O’Brien Committee, including astronomer Carl Sagan, reviewed Project Blue Book in 1964. The committee determined that UFOs did not threaten U.S. national security and found no evidence of technological advancements beyond terrestrial capabilities.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 19 of aaro historical record vol1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1964 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The O’Brien Committee, including astronomer Carl Sagan, reviewed Project Blue Book in 1964. The committee determined that UFOs did not threaten U.S. national security and found no evidence of technological advancements beyond terrestrial capabilities.
Witnesses on file: Dr. Brian O’Brien and committee including Carl Sagan.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: identified as not of foreign origin. 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.