2012 UAP Sighting — AARO Records
AAWSAP/AATIP was terminated in 2012 upon the completion of its deliverables. This termination was due to concerns from both the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense regarding the project's direction.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 23 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 2012 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
AAWSAP/AATIP was terminated in 2012 upon the completion of its deliverables. This termination was due to concerns from both the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense regarding the project’s direction.
Witnesses on file: DIA and DoD.
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.