1980 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P4 var 2)
The Advanced Technology Bomber/B-2 Spirit was a US strategic bomber program that began in 1980. It was designed to penetrate enemy air defenses and deliver nuclear weapons.
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 1980 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The Advanced Technology Bomber/B-2 Spirit was a US strategic bomber program that began in 1980. It was designed to penetrate enemy air defenses and deliver nuclear weapons.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: identified as aircraft. 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.