2008 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D193P43)
Senators Reid, Inouye, and Stevens invited a DIA Program Manager to discuss establishing a research program focused on 'exotic sciences'. They expressed interest in a program involving advanced aerospace threats and technologies.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 43 of AARO DHS Kona Blue, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated May of 2008 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Senators Reid, Inouye, and Stevens invited a DIA Program Manager to discuss establishing a research program focused on ‘exotic sciences’. They expressed interest in a program involving advanced aerospace threats and technologies.
Witnesses on file: Senators Reid, Inouye, Stevens.
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.