2010 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P51)
An information memorandum was sent from the Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. The content of the memo is not detailed on this page, but it represents an internal communication regarding unident
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 51 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated December 1, 2010 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
An information memorandum was sent from the Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. The content of the memo is not detailed on this page, but it represents an internal communication regarding unidentified phenomena.
Witnesses on file: Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director.
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.