2010 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D193P46)
The initial two-year contract with Bigelow Aerospace concluded, resulting in 38 research papers, a database with over 100,000 entries, and numerous investigative cases of observed anomalies. The research data was then placed in contractor-secured storage.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 46 of AARO DHS Kona Blue, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated December 2010 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The initial two-year contract with Bigelow Aerospace concluded, resulting in 38 research papers, a database with over 100,000 entries, and numerous investigative cases of observed anomalies. The research data was then placed in contractor-secured storage.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
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.