Honest residual — AARO access limits & unresolved cases.
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The caveat that keeps the debunk honest: most AARO cases remain unresolved for lack of data, collection bias toward military ranges, the review is split into volumes, and AARO stayed 'open to revision' — 'no evidence found within access limits' is the ceiling, not 'proven impossible'.
To avoid overclaiming the rebuttal: AARO publicly asserted 'unprecedented' unimpeded access, but the report carries genuine limits. The majority of case holdings remain UNRESOLVED for lack of actionable sensor data (AARO frames this as a data gap rather than evidence of anomalies — a methodological assumption critics dispute); there is acknowledged collection bias toward military ranges/test airspace; no national GEOINT/SIGINT/MASINT UAP reports were received in some periods; and the historical review is split into volumes (Vol I: 1945-Oct 2023; Vol II pending) with some claims still under evaluation. AARO stated it 'remains open to additional, verifiable information that may alter the conclusions.' The honest ceiling: 'no verifiable evidence found, within access limits, as of Volume I' — not 'definitively impossible.'.