What can AARO actually gain from a private UFO archive that government records don’t contain?

One September story I found particularly interesting was AARO’s move to seek subscription access to the National UFO Historical Records Center. The important part, to me, isn’t any suggestion that the archive contains some hidden smoking gun. The documented proposal is for access to historical UAP data, metadata and analysis, particularly material predating 1990. What makes that potentially useful is provenance. Civilian UFO organisations continued collecting witness interviews, correspondenc...