US · DoD UAP office
AARO
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
Hume FOIA'd AARO for UK mystery-drone / Lakenheath briefings that deputy director Tim Phillips verbally confirmed. AARO returned no records. Also no records on a 1989 Russian laser-weapon investigation attributed to Sean Kirkpatrick.
Files
AARO records of UK 'mystery drones' briefing to Tim Phillips
Phillips told Hume yes, he received such a briefing in his official capacity. AARO FOIA: no records of the briefing.
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AARO records of RAF Lakenheath drone briefing
Phillips said he had been briefed as deputy director. AARO: no record. Hume checked DGI dates; they did not match. He treats it as informal.
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UK pins on AARO UAP map 2023–24
Withheld in full. Hume guesses RAF Lossiemouth / early-warning systems but labels that a guess.
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AARO Historic Report working file — Art Lundahl
Suggested FOIA, not known to have been filed/released.
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AARO records — 1989 Russian laser-weapon investigation
AARO claimed no record of any such investigation. Hume: the sole source is Dr K; AARO appears to be distancing from him.
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Gen. Sheehan MFR to AARO — discrepancy notes
Kirkpatrick ignored the points. Hume's working theory: Kirkpatrick's worldview conflicts with NHI, which does not explain the ignore.
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AARO / Phillips on Yankee Blue and Doty
AARO FOIA: neither confirm nor deny (Hume expected this for named-person requests). Separately, Tim Phillips told Hume that Doty was not interviewed and was not the source, and called the program Yankee Black.
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Names
Tim Phillips
Deputy Director, AARO
Told Hume, in his official AARO capacity, that he had been briefed by the UK on 'mystery drones' and specifically on RAF Lakenheath. Hume's subsequent AARO FOIAs returned no records of those briefings. Phillips also denied to Hume that Richard Doty was interviewed for Yankee Blue.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick
Former director, AARO
Hume says Kirkpatrick ignored questions about discrepancies in Gen. Sheehan's MFR to AARO. A WSJ story citing Kirkpatrick on a 1989 Russian laser-weapon investigation is contradicted, Hume says, by AARO's claim of no such investigation records.
Lewis Goodall
Journalist
Hume says Goodall is being misled or lied to about the UK's association with AARO, given Phillips's verbal confirmation of UK briefings and UK attendance at an FVEY UAP/AARO event versus MOD NCND answers.
Richard Doty
Former AFOSI
Tim Phillips denied to Hume that Doty was interviewed by AARO or was the source of the USAF Yankee Blue (Phillips said 'Yankee Black') program.
Cases
UK–AARO data sharing and FVEY UAP
Verbal yes, paper Glomar
RAF Lakenheath, Marham, Mildenhall and HMS Queen Elizabeth
NPAS video out; Navy Hamburg log NCND; AFOSI on the ground
Art Lundahl's 1952 fragment, IBM and LMSSC
AARO could not find the piece Grusch says CIA gave to Lockheed
CIA DS&T UFO programs after Blue Book
Evans Hineman on the record, files still inside
AARO under Kirkpatrick: ignored MFR, missing laser file, Yankee Blue
Director as sole source, office as empty cabinet