2009 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P31)
Interviewees allege a UAP crash resulted in the US government and private sector possessing off-world material. A former CIA official was accused of preventing the return of this material to the USG in 2010, but both he and the alleged intermediary denied the claims. The official
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 31 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 2009-2010 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Interviewees allege a UAP crash resulted in the US government and private sector possessing off-world material. A former CIA official was accused of preventing the return of this material to the USG in 2010, but both he and the alleged intermediary denied the claims. The official stated he had no knowledge of extraterrestrial material.
Witnesses on file: AARO interviewees, a former CIA official, another interviewee from the facility.
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.