Case File · AARO · Post-Cold War (1990-2016) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

2009 UAP Sighting — AARO Records

UFO Visual Sighting

LTG Burgess and William Lynn communicated to Senator Reid that the DIA program could not be conducted by the Intelligence Community due to its potential growth. They suggested the program might be better suited for another agency.

December 2009
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 193
Source document: PURSUE doc 193 · Source: declassified document

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 December 2009 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

LTG Burgess and William Lynn communicated to Senator Reid that the DIA program could not be conducted by the Intelligence Community due to its potential growth. They suggested the program might be better suited for another agency.

Witnesses on file: LTG Burgess, William Lynn, Senator Reid.

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.

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