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 former named senior CIA official quashed the proposal to remove the material from the corporation.

A separate interviewee claimed that circa 1999, a former, senior U.S. military officer told the interviewee that that he touched the surface of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. The interviewee stated that the senior officer gave a detailed description of a craft floating in a building. The officer told the interviewee that approximately 150 individuals were working on the program and that the program was kept "outside of government" so the technology could remain proprietary.

Two interviewees said they participated in an alleged White House-tasked UAP study in Northern Virginia sometime between 2004 and 2007. The study evaluated the impacts to society should the United States, Russia, or China disclose they had evidence of extraterrestrial beings or craft. One interviewee assumed these governments possessed such evidence. The study was conducted by approximately 12 participants who evaluated 64 different aspects of society, such as religion and financial markets, which could be impacted by such a disclosure. The study lasted one day, and the interviewee was not aware of any final report or to whom any report may have been delivered.

Another interviewee claimed that in the 1990s he overhead electronic communication of a conversation between two military bases where scientists claimed "aliens" were present during specialized materials testing. The interviewee also reported that on another occasion in the 1990s he observed an "unidentified flying object" at a U.S. military facility. The interviewee described the object as exhibiting a peculiar flight pattern.

An interviewee who is a former U.S. service member said that in 2009, while participating in a humanitarian and security mission in a foreign country, he encountered "U.S. Special Forces" loading containers onto a large extraterrestrial spacecraft.

A separate interviewee said that a family member was part of an effort to reverse-engineer an object assumed to be off-world technology in the 1980s. The engineers failed to reverse-engineer the object and it was sent to a different facility for further evaluation.

An interviewee pointed out to AARO the existence of an alleged leaked Special National Intelligence Estimate from 1961 as proof of the existence of UAP crashes. AARO obtained a copy of the document through open-source research and evaluated its authenticity.

Some interviewees and public accounts underpin this storyline by claiming through second and thirdhand accounts that some NDAs may have been used to protect a "reverse-engineering program of off-world technology." These accounts describe the NDAs as including "punishment by death" provisions should the signatory disclose