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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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30 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 work through policy and guidance issues to the forces and to 2 the services, and I would like to just make sure that we 3 message back to all of the operators the importance of their 4 reporting and the fact that you are about to get a bunch of 5 new requirements that we are issuing through the Joint Staff 6 on all of the data that we are going to need you to save and 7 report back to us. 8 It is invaluable and we are working to try to take the 9 most advantage of that to learn what it is that we are 10 trying to mitigate. 11 To get directly to your question, the first thing that 12 we are doing is normalizing our reporting. We are 13 standardizing our reporting and the requirements associated 14 with that. 15 Guidance from the Joint Staff, I think, goes out maybe 16 this week, maybe next week, that we have been working with 17 them for some months that does exactly what I just said. It 18 gives them timelines. It gives them requirements. It gives 19 them here is all the data you have to have and you have got 20 to retain it. 21 The next thing that comes after that is a plan ord that 22 will go out to the commands for mitigation and response. So 23 there is a couple of things that we have to do. 24 One, I need to work with the commands and with the IC 25 and with our -- outside of our DOD and IC partners to extend 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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