1968 UAP Sighting — AARO Records
The Condon Report, completed in April 1968, was an 18-month study funded by the USAF. The report concluded that UFOs did not represent a threat to national security or advanced technology beyond terrestrial capabilities.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 19 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated April 1968 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The Condon Report, completed in April 1968, was an 18-month study funded by the USAF. The report concluded that UFOs did not represent a threat to national security or advanced technology beyond terrestrial capabilities.
Witnesses on file: Dr. Edward U. Condon and panel.
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.