2009 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D193P56 var 2)
On June 24, 2009, Senator Reid sent a letter to the Deputy Secretary of Defense requesting the establishment of a program to study unidentified phenomena. The request involved either an alternate compensatory control measure or a sensitive access program. The letter initiated a r
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 June 24, 2009 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
On June 24, 2009, Senator Reid sent a letter to the Deputy Secretary of Defense requesting the establishment of a program to study unidentified phenomena. The request involved either an alternate compensatory control measure or a sensitive access program. The letter initiated a review by the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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.