KONA BLUE

1. Public Record

Kona Blue. A Department of Homeland Security sensitive activities proposal that surfaced in later document dumps tied to the AAWSAP afterlife. The paper wants a home for the same wide aperture: aerospace threat, anomalous materials, the ranch-class remainder that DIA's contract could not keep under one roof. It is a name on a proposal, not a tour of a hangar. That distinction is the whole honest file.

Stratton, Lacatski, and the AAWSAP circle sit next door on this shelf. Kona Blue is what happens when a program dies at one agency and someone tries to stand it up at another. DHS is not DIA. A SAP package is not a recovery. Compilers who treat the name as proof of a warehouse are doing the Hangar 18 trick with better letterhead.

A proposal. A second agency. A name that wanted a building.

Paper can be real and still be a wish. Kona Blue is allowed as a documented attempt. It is not allowed as a stamped inventory of metal.

2. Date of Incident

Post-AAWSAP years. Public discussion clustered in the mid-2020s when proposal language circulated. No public start-of-operations date this folder will stamp.

3. Location

DHS paper in Washington. Approximate 38°53 N 077°01 W. Field sites unnamed on this card.

4. Official Narrative

No public DHS finding that Kona Blue ran as a crash-retrieval shop. Official-adjacent record is proposal language and later commentary. AARO-era denials of historical NHI programs sit on the other side of the same fight.

5. Witness Layer

Document holders and later journalists. AAWSAP principals as the neighbouring origin. Congressional and AARO voices as the counter-pile.

Moving a problem to a new letterhead is a Washington move. It does not mint a craft. It mints a second file number.

Keep Kona Blue next to Hangar 18 as a caution, not as a twin warehouse.

6. Recovery Logistics

Proposal pages. No public object. No public address.

7. Assessment

Start with the paper. Someone in the post-AAWSAP weather tried to give the wide aperture a DHS roof. That is historically interesting. It is not a tray. Stratton's task force and Grusch's hearing are other cards. Do not let this name eat them or be eaten by them.

This folder files Kona Blue as a named proposal in the AAWSAP afterlife. Keep the ranch on its own dirt. Keep Wright-Patt as a nickname. Keep this as letterhead.

Afterlives of contracts are a Washington genre. New initials, same aperture, same fight about whether the aperture ever held metal. Letterhead changes. Trays do not appear because the initials did.

8. Materials & Remains

Circulated proposal language. Commentary. No hardware.

9. Key Personnel

AAWSAP principals as neighbouring origin : The first roof.

DHS paper authors as unnamed on this card : The second try.

10. Aftermath

The name lives in 2020s dumps. The building does not open. AARO and the memoir shelf keep fighting over whether any of these names were ever more than paper.

11. Current Archive Status

Status: Named proposal. No tour.

Confidence: High that Kona Blue exists as proposal language in the public fight. Low that it ran as a recovery program. Low that a warehouse follows the name.

Filing note

A DIA contract that ended, a DHS page that wanted the same aperture, a name that sounds like a door, a shelf that already holds Hangar 18 and must not be allowed to treat letterhead as concrete.

A SAP package is not a recovery. That is the only stamp this page will give the name.