2009 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D193P56)
In November 2009, a meeting occurred between Deputy Secretary of Defense Lynn and Senator Reid to discuss the program. The Defense Intelligence Agency determined the reports generated by the program were of limited value, but suggested they might be useful to other organizations.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 56 of AARO DHS Kona Blue, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated November 2009 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
In November 2009, a meeting occurred between Deputy Secretary of Defense Lynn and Senator Reid to discuss the program. The Defense Intelligence Agency determined the reports generated by the program were of limited value, but suggested they might be useful to other organizations. The agency proposed transitioning the project to another suitable component upon contract completion.
Witnesses on file: Deputy Secretary of Defense 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.