The review of U.S. government records dating back to 1945 was conducted by the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) The report highlights several incidents where individuals named authentic classified programs but “the interviewees mistakenly associated these authentic USG programs with alien and extraterrestrial activity” Phillips said that AARO’s 40-person staff were involved in the effort to gather historical information from all federal agencies that had conducted previous reviews of UAP incidents.