Case File · AARO · Post-Cold War (1990-2016) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

Kona Blue — Unknown location, February 10, 2012

UFO Visual Sighting

Kona Blue: KONA BLUE was a prospective special access program within the Department of Homeland Security that was terminated on February 10, 2012. All associated documents have been declassified and approved for public release. No additional information related to the program was

February 10, 2012
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 193
Source document: PURSUE doc 193 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 1 of AARO DHS Kona Blue, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated February 10, 2012 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

KONA BLUE was a prospective special access program within the Department of Homeland Security that was terminated on February 10, 2012. All associated documents have been declassified and approved for public release. No additional information related to the program was discovered during a search of DHS records.

Witnesses on file: DHS personnel.

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.

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