1964 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P33)
In 1964, an observation was made of what appeared to be a UAP shooting down a ballistic missile reentry vehicle. AARO investigated this claim but was unable to recover any alleged film of the event. Investigators correlated the time and location with an antiballistic missile test
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 33 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
In 1964, an observation was made of what appeared to be a UAP shooting down a ballistic missile reentry vehicle. AARO investigated this claim but was unable to recover any alleged film of the event. Investigators correlated the time and location with an antiballistic missile test, suggesting that the observation may have originated from this test.
Witnesses on file: civilian observers.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: identified as aircraft. 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.