Pentagon Seeks Access to Vast Private UFO Records Collection

DefenseScoop reports that AARO planned a sole-source commercial-data subscription to the National Unidentified Flying Object Historic Records Center, particularly for records predating 1990.

The proposed subscription represents a concrete expansion of AARO's historical-record work into private collections that may preserve material absent from federal repositories.

• The proposed arrangement included a one-year base period and four option years.
• The linked SAM.gov notice was not independently preserved during this research pass.