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This is a stenographic transcript of an April 19, 2023 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, chaired by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, on the mission and budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. AARO released it in full in 2025. Director Sean Kirkpatrick testified that AARO has found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity and that most reports resolve into mundane objects. He also presented trend data and two declassified MQ-9 videos, one of which was resolved as a commuter aircraft.
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9 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 view Congress as a critical partner in this endeavor. AARO 2 has accomplished much in the last nine months since it was 3 established. The AARO team of more than three dozen experts 4 is organized around four functional areas: operations, 5 scientific research, integrated analysis, and strategic 6 communications. 7 In the nine months since AARO's establishment we have 8 taken important steps to involve and improve UAP data 9 collection, standardize the department's UAP internal 10 reporting requirements, and implement a framework for 11 rigorous scientific and intelligence analysis, allowing us 12 to resolve cases in a systematic and prioritized manner. 13 Meanwhile, consistent with legislative direction, AARO 14 is also carefully reviewing and researching the U.S. 15 government's UAP-related historical record. AARO is leading 16 a focused effort to better characterize, understand, and 17 attribute UAP with priority given to UAP reports by DOD and 18 IC personnel in or near areas of national security 19 importance. 20 DOD fully appreciates the eagerness from many quarters, 21 especially here in Congress and in the American public, to 22 quickly resolve every UAP encountered across the globe from 23 the distant past through today. 24 It is important to note, however, AARO is the 25 culmination of decades of DOD, intelligence community, and Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 2/6/2025 022
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