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KONA BLUE

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A Prospective Special Access Program (PSAP) that was PROPOSED to the Department of Homeland Security and never approved or stood up. AARO's historical record report describes it as a plan to restart UAP investigations, paranormal research including alleged "human consciousness anomalies", and to reverse-engineer any recovered off-world spacecraft its advocates hoped to acquire. The report says it "traces its origins to the DIA-managed AAWSAP/AATIP program", which DIA cancelled in 2012 "due to lack of merit and the utility of the deliverables"; that "Senators Lieberman and Reid asked that the PSAP be established with the promise of additional funding"; and that "no extraterrestrial craft or bodies were ever collected - this material was only assumed to exist by KONA BLUE advocates and its anticipated contract performers." No data or material was transferred to DHS. The report refers to the programme's primary contractor and to a property where UAP and paranormal research was conducted without naming either, and this entry does not name them.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "aaro", "aatip", "uap". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01

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This entity's name appears in the 1 document below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume Ialready cited above

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…AP-related Prospective Special Access Program (PSAP) called KONA BLUE that was proposed to the Department of Homeland Security (D…

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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I

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traces its origins to it

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KONA BLUE traces its origins to the DIA-managed AAWSAP/AATIP program, which was funded through a special appropriation and executed by its primary contractor, a private sector organization. ... This proposal, codenamed KONA BLUE, would restart UAP investigations, paranormal research (including alleged "human consciousness anomalies") and reverse-engineer any recovered off-world spacecraft that they hoped to acquire.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 34 · read off the page footer; the printed number matches the PDF page on every page held from this report
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Caveat THE ENTITY AT THE FAR END OF THIS ARROW IS CONTESTED IN ITS OWN NAME. This report writes "the DIA-managed AAWSAP/AATIP program" as one thing; the Department has said elsewhere, and this map records on link 23, that "Unlike AAWSAP, AATIP was never an official DoD program." There is no aawsap node here, so the arrow lands on aatip, which is the closer half of a compound the source treats as single. Separately: the same sentence names the contractor only as "a private sector organization", and the next names "a property owned by" it. This map holds nodes many readers would map onto both. Neither is connected here, because the report declines to make that identification and this project will not make it in the report's voice.
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asked that the PSAP be established

The document says

As demonstrated by the proposal package and by statements from the originator, Senators Lieberman and Reid asked that the PSAP be established with the promise of additional funding.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 35 · read off the page footer; the printed number matches the PDF page on every page held from this report
rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from

Caveat A NAMED POLITICIAN, AARO'S ACCOUNT, AND NOTHING ELSE BEHIND IT. Read what the sentence rests on in its own words: "As demonstrated by the proposal package and by statements from the originator". This project holds neither the proposal package nor those statements, and the report does not name the originator. Reid is not quoted here and nothing in this corpus carries any response from him to the characterisation. Guardrail 4 applies with full force: AARO is a party to this history, not a neutral narrator of it, which is why the claim text says "in AARO's account" rather than stating it flat. AND THE SOURCE NAMES TWO SENATORS, NOT ONE - "Senators Lieberman and Reid". Joseph Lieberman has no node on this map, so the drawn connection shows one man where the document shows two. That is an absence in this map, not a distinction the source draws.

Notes on this record

The name

Recorded in the capitals the report uses throughout, "KONA BLUE".

What this is

form is "proposal", not "program". It was never approved and never stood up, and a reader meeting it among government programmes would otherwise assume it operated.

The date

NO DATE ESTABLISHED. The only year the four read pages give is 2012, and that is the year DIA cancelled the AAWSAP/AATIP programme KONA BLUE was proposed to succeed - not a date for the proposal, its submission to DHS, or its refusal. Recording 2012 here would be dating one event with another event's number because it is the only one on the page.