1970 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P28)
An interviewee, through a thirdhand account, claimed an organization possessed 12 spacecraft recovered from crash events prior to 1970, some of which were allegedly intact. The CIA reportedly sought the return of this material in 1989.
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 prior to 1970 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
An interviewee, through a thirdhand account, claimed an organization possessed 12 spacecraft recovered from crash events prior to 1970, some of which were allegedly intact. The CIA reportedly sought the return of this material in 1989.
Witnesses on file: AARO interviewee (thirdhand account).
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no empirical evidence supporting these claims. 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.