2009 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P23)
On June 24, 2009, Senator Reid sent a letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III requesting that AAWSAP/AATIP be designated a DoD Special Access Program. This request was declined based on the recommendation of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence James R. Clap
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 23 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, 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
On June 24, 2009, Senator Reid sent a letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III requesting that AAWSAP/AATIP be designated a DoD Special Access Program. This request was declined based on the recommendation of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr., who deemed such a designation unjustified.
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.