2012 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P34)
The AAWSAP/AATIP program, funded by a special appropriation and executed by a private contractor, was cancelled by the DIA in 2012. The cancellation was due to a perceived lack of merit and the limited usefulness of the program's deliverables. The program had originally researche
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 34 of aaro historical record vol1 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
The AAWSAP/AATIP program, funded by a special appropriation and executed by a private contractor, was cancelled by the DIA in 2012. The cancellation was due to a perceived lack of merit and the limited usefulness of the program’s deliverables. The program had originally researched cutting-edge science, but also included UAP and paranormal research.
Witnesses on file: DIA.
Verbatim from the file
“DIA cancelled the program in 2012 due to lack of merit and the utility of the deliverables.”
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: discounted by investigators. 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.