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KONA BLUE: proposed DHS program for UAP material

Name: KONA BLUE: proposed DHS program for UAP material
Start: 2011
Location: Washington, D.C.

When: 2011
Where: Washington, D.C.
Sources: 2 public sources

St. Elizabeths West Campus, headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Interviewees told AARO that KONA BLUE was a DHS compartment for retrieved non-human material. AARO found it was a 2011 proposed special access program, pushed by people from DIA's AAWSAP/AATIP, that DHS's deputy secretary disapproved; it never got funding or material.

Sources

OfficialHistory and Origin of KONA BLUE (opens in a new tab)All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
OfficialUAP Records: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) KONA BLUE Information Release (opens in a new tab)All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)

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