1972 UAP Sighting — AARO Records
The Space Transportation System/Space Shuttle was a US reusable spacecraft program that operated from 1972 to 2011. It launched satellites, conducted experiments, and transported astronauts.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 4 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1972 - 2011 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The Space Transportation System/Space Shuttle was a US reusable spacecraft program that operated from 1972 to 2011. It launched satellites, conducted experiments, and transported astronauts.
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.