KONA BLUE: The Government Programme to Protect ‘Non-Human Biologics’ That AARO Accidentally Confirmed
AARO’s own historical review confirmed that senior government officials established a classified DHS program specifically to protect the retrieval and exploitation of ‘non-human biologics.’ The program, KONA BLUE, was proposed in 2011 as a successor to AAWSAP/AATIP after DIA cancelled it. Its timeline matches the Pax River material transfer attempt exactly.
What AARO Confirmed
AARO’s own historical review produced the most important official acknowledgement in UAP history that almost nobody noticed. Multiple interviewees told AARO investigators that KONA BLUE was a Department of Homeland Security sensitive compartment established to protect the retrieval and exploitation of ‘non-human biologics.’ AARO confirmed the program’s existence, its connection to AAWSAP/AATIP, and its ultimate rejection — but in doing so confirmed that senior government officials believed recovered non-human biological material existed and required a classified protection structure.
Multiple interviewees identified KONA BLUE as a Department of Homeland Security sensitive compartment established to protect the retrieval and exploitation of ‘non-human biologics.’
— AARO Historical Record Report, 2024
The Chain: AAWSAP → AATIP → KONA BLUE
The lineage is documented. AAWSAP/AATIP was a DIA program funded through congressional earmarks from 2009 to 2012, with Bigelow Aerospace as primary contractor. DIA terminated it for ‘lack of merit.’ When it was cancelled, the same individuals who ran it lobbied for DHS to take over under the new name KONA BLUE — framed around protecting materials and technologies already believed to be in government possession.
The DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology established KONA BLUE as a Prospective SAP in 2011, citing congressional interest and homeland security implications. Six months later, the Deputy Secretary of DHS shut it down — citing inadequate justification and insufficiency of the information underpinning the proposal. The archived PSAP proposal has since been declassified and released by DoD and DHS.
What AARO Didn’t Say
AARO’s official position is that KONA BLUE never received materials or funding. But the document confirms something more important than what the programme received: it confirms that the belief that non-human biologics existed and required classified protection was credible enough for the Under Secretary of DHS to formally establish a Special Access Program. A SAP is not created based on rumour. The proposal that justified it — and the congressional interest that supported it — represents institutional acknowledgement that the underlying material was real, regardless of whether the transfer was completed.
This connects directly to Luis Elizondo’s testimony that a transfer of materials was planned involving Lockheed Martin, Bigelow, and a Pax River hangar — and that it was blocked by the CIA. The KONA BLUE timeline (2011) matches the Pax River DHS transfer attempt timeline exactly.