1971 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P4)
Hexagon was a US reconnaissance satellite program that operated from 1971 to 1986. It provided high-resolution imagery of the Earth.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 4 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1971- 1986 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Hexagon was a US reconnaissance satellite program that operated from 1971 to 1986. It provided high-resolution imagery of the Earth.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
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.