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

2009 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D193P47)

UFO Visual Sighting

Correspondence from Senator Reid to the Honorable William Lynn, Deputy Secretary of Defense, was dated June 24, 2009. The correspondence relates to the AATI program and potential funding.

24 June, 2009
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 193
Source document: PURSUE doc 193 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 47 of AARO DHS Kona Blue, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 24 June, 2009 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

Correspondence from Senator Reid to the Honorable William Lynn, Deputy Secretary of Defense, was dated June 24, 2009. The correspondence relates to the AATI program and potential funding.

Witnesses on file: 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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