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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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27 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 state of the art in development across the S&T community. 2 What is -- what are the DARPAs of the world doing? What are 3 our -- what is the horizon scanning of emerging technologies 4 appropriate to this subcommittee? 5 What is happening out there, and if somebody could 6 accelerate that capability how would that manifest itself 7 and what would it look like and do those signatures match 8 what we are seeing? 9 There are emerging capabilities out there that in many 10 instances Russia and China -- well, China in particular are 11 on par or ahead of us in some areas. 12 So previously I used to be the Defense Department's 13 intelligence officer for science and technical intelligence. 14 That was our job was to look for what does all that look 15 like. And then my last several years, of course, in Space 16 Command doing space. 17 The adversary is not waiting. They are advancing and 18 they are advancing quickly. If I were to put on some of my 19 old hats I would tell you they are less risk averse at 20 technical advancement than we are. They are just willing to 21 try things and see if it works. 22 Are there capabilities that could be employed against 23 us in both and ISR and a weapons fashion? Absolutely. Do I 24 have evidence that they are doing it in these cases? No, 25 but I have concerning indicators. 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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