AARO’s EFOIA Reading Room at aaro.mil is the most underused primary source in UAP research. Most community attention goes to dramatic disclosures, whistleblower interviews, and new video. The document trail at AARO’s public-facing archive is systematically ignored.
Ten leads worth investigating:
- AARO’s redacted organizational charts — what positions exist but are unnamed.
- FY2025 and FY2026 budget justifications submitted to Congress.
- Interagency correspondence with NOAA — what data-sharing agreements exist?
- Space Command coordination records on orbital tracking.
- ORNL materials analysis methodology — what tests, what samples, what chain of custody?
- GREMLIN site selection criteria — effectively a declassified UAP hotspot map.
- The classified secure reporting portal design documents.
- The underlying Kona Blue assessment beyond the public summary.
- Foreign government UAP coordination records — Five Eyes data sharing.
- AARO’s formal case closure criteria — by what specific standards is a case adjudicated as prosaic?
The redactions are data. The absences are data. The bureaucratic shape of what AARO is willing to release tells you about what they will not.