KONA BLUE - DHS Prospective Special Access Program Records
| Author | U.S. Department of Homeland Security; released by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) |
|---|---|
| Published | February 5, 2024 |
| Format | Report |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — Declassified DHS records on KONA BLUE, a proposed 2011 special access program to study claimed recovered “advanced aerospace” technology; it was terminated in 2012.
The packet opens with a February 5, 2024 letter from Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Kristie Canegallo to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, stating that all DHS documents on the KONA BLUE prospective special access program (PSAP) were declassified for public release, with prior classifications shown by strike-out rather than removed. AARO published the set in 2024 alongside its own report on the program’s history.
The rest is the program file itself: successive versions of the proposal (a 48-page version and several condensed 4- and 8-page versions dated 2011 to 2013), an establishment memo for a DHS Science & Technology PSAP, budget material, and minutes of a November 21, 2011 Special Access Program Oversight Committee meeting. The proposal grew out of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s earlier Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program contract with Bigelow Aerospace, and pitched gathering retirees’ oral histories, studying alleged “recovered” technology, and putting selected locations under intensive sensor observation.
The cover letter records that the PSAP was terminated on February 10, 2012, and that a DHS search found no further records.
What it is: an official, declassified US government release. It documents what a proposal claimed and how the bureaucracy handled it; it is not evidence that the claimed technology exists.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Published by AARO at aaro.mil (the site refuses scripted downloads, so the link was taken from AARO’s own path rather than fetched).
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
56 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.