Kona Blue
Kona Blue was a proposed Department of Homeland Security program specifically designed to reverse-engineer any alien technology recovered by the government.
Status
Unlike many other alleged UAP programs, Kona Blue’s existence has been officially acknowledged by the Department of Defense. However, the DoD states it “never got off the ground” because “no such technology was ever located.”
Interpretations
- Skeptics see the program’s failure to launch as evidence against the existence of recovered non-human-intelligence materials
- Proponents argue Kona Blue may have been:
- A cover story
- A program that was denied access to materials held within separate, more deeply classified programs (i.e., crash-retrieval-programs)
Significance
Kona Blue is notable because it represents official government acknowledgment that at least some elements of the government took the possibility of recovered alien technology seriously enough to propose a formal reverse-engineering program. This makes it one of the few data points in the uap-reverse-engineering debate that does not rely solely on whistleblower testimony.