Kona Blue — Unknown location, 2011
Kona Blue: The DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology established KONA BLUE as a Prospective Special Access Program (PSAP) based on claims of existing sensitive materials and congressional interest. The program aimed to investigate advanced aerospace vehicles, but was dis
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 1 of History and Origin of KONA BLUE FINAL 508, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 2011 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
The DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology established KONA BLUE as a Prospective Special Access Program (PSAP) based on claims of existing sensitive materials and congressional interest. The program aimed to investigate advanced aerospace vehicles, but was disapproved and terminated six months later due to concerns about justification and insufficient information.
Witnesses on file: DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology (S&T).
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.