2023 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D181P1 var 5)
AARO attempted to engage with David Grusch through an associate, Person (b)(6), to request an interview regarding his claims of U.S. Government possession of extraterrestrial material and reverse-engineering programs. These attempts were unsuccessful, as Grusch declined to cooper
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 1 of 24 F 0266, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated June 8th, 2023 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
AARO attempted to engage with David Grusch through an associate, Person (b)(6), to request an interview regarding his claims of U.S. Government possession of extraterrestrial material and reverse-engineering programs. These attempts were unsuccessful, as Grusch declined to cooperate with AARO.
Witnesses on file: Director, AARO and staff.
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.