Case File · AARO · Cold War / Blue Book Era (1953-1969) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

1964 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P28)

UFO Visual Sighting

An interviewee relayed a claim that the US government and industry partners have been testing concealed off-world technology since approximately 1964. This narrative suggests a program possessing as many as 12 extraterrestrial spacecraft.

approximately 1964
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 214
Source document: PURSUE doc 214 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 28 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated approximately 1964 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

An interviewee relayed a claim that the US government and industry partners have been testing concealed off-world technology since approximately 1964. This narrative suggests a program possessing as many as 12 extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Witnesses on file: AARO interviewee.

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.

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