2011 UAP Sighting — AARO Records
A program briefing was presented to DHS officials Joel Wall and Steve Cover, inviting DHS to expand research involving the analysis of compiled data and ongoing recording of observable anomalies. The briefing reiterated Senator Reid’s desire to transition the program into a speci
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 43 of AARO DHS Kona Blue, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated April of 2011 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
A program briefing was presented to DHS officials Joel Wall and Steve Cover, inviting DHS to expand research involving the analysis of compiled data and ongoing recording of observable anomalies. The briefing reiterated Senator Reid’s desire to transition the program into a special access program.
Witnesses on file: MN, Joel Wall, Steve Cover.
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.