Kona Blue — Unknown location, November 21, 2011
Kona Blue: A meeting occurred to discuss the KONA BLUE program, its history at DIA, and potential research applicable to the DHS mission. Concerns were raised about the program's authority and whether its data collection qualified as intelligence gathering. The attendees tasked D
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 38 of AARO DHS Kona Blue, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated November 21, 2011 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
A meeting occurred to discuss the KONA BLUE program, its history at DIA, and potential research applicable to the DHS mission. Concerns were raised about the program’s authority and whether its data collection qualified as intelligence gathering. The attendees tasked Dr. O’Toole and Mr. Cover with preparing a detailed paper documenting the program’s origins and research focus.
Witnesses on file: meeting attendees.
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.