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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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36 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 could tell you what they know without risk of retribution 2 from the -- or violation of their NDAs. 3 Have you submitted a public-facing website product for 4 approval to your superiors and how long has it been under 5 review? 6 Mr. Kirkpatrick: I have. We submitted the first 7 version of that before Christmas. 8 Senator Gillibrand: And do you have an estimate from 9 them when they will respond and when you will have feedback 10 on that? 11 Mr. Kirkpatrick: No, I do not. 12 Senator Gillibrand: Okay. We will author a letter 13 asking for that timely response to your superiors. 14 When do you expect that you will establish a public- 15 facing discoverable and access portal for people to use to 16 contact your office as the law requires? 17 Mr. Kirkpatrick: So I would like to, first, say thank 18 you all very much for referring the witnesses that you have 19 thus far to us. I appreciate that. We have brought in 20 nearly two dozen so far. It has been very helpful. 21 I would ask that you continue to do that until we have 22 an approved plan. We have a multi-phased approach for doing 23 that that we have been socializing and have submitted for 24 approval sometime. Once that happens then we should be able 25 to push all that out and get this a little more automated. 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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