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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 022_SASC_Transcript_2023

Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. · 2023 · 50 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 3 …Kirkpatrick to 19 lean in on this issue and the work that he has accomplished 20…
  • p. 5 …in interagency coordination after 14 the NSC Working Group disbands. 15 In the fiscal year 2023…
  • p. 7 …Adversaries like China and Russia are working to 9 hold U.S. interests, including our homeland…
  • p. 9 …24 All leadership that I have had the pleasure of working 25 with, whether DOD, IC…
  • p. 12 …As such, we are 10 working with industry, academia, and the scientific 11 community which bring…
  • p. 14 …10 In the wake of the PRC HAB event the interagency is 11 working to better…
  • p. 15 …AARO is working very hard to do the 14 same. That is how science works, not…
  • p. 16 …Much remains to be done but the hard work is 11 underway. 12 Thank you for…
  • p. 18 …How are we going to get more 22 data? We are working with the joint staff…
  • p. 20 …But this is the kind of data that we have to work 19 with and the…
  • p. 26 …22 In the course of your work have you become aware of any 23 Chinese or…
  • p. 28 …They are just willing to 21 try things and see if it works. 22 Are there…
  • p. 29 …I appreciate that and that 2 is why it is so important that you are working…
  • p. 30 …24 We are also working very closely with Joint Staff and 25 the Joint Staff has…
  • p. 31 30 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 work through…
  • p. 34 …So that is actually wrapped into the 15 plan ord that we are working with Joint…
  • p. 35 …work, here is what we have seen work, here is what does not 14 work. 15…
  • p. 36 …8 DOD and DNI are working through that now. I would have 9 to refer you…
  • p. 39 …I worked with the director of Joint Staff, 11 the J2 and the J3 that night…
  • p. 40 …That is why 25 it is so important the work we are doing with Joint Staff…
  • p. 43 …11 So part of our budget is working through what does that 12 look like and…
  • p. 46 …We have a lot of work to do. So if you do not hear 17 from…
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1 no explanation for it. I would like to provide the evidence
2 for it. It is on my video, as well as ancient evidence of
3 cave drawings that look identical to that disc.
4 And what that would tell us is what [inaudible] and the
5 corporal has been saying. Assuming that they are coming
6 here is the assumption. A terrible thing to do. If we can
7 prove that they have always existed then they are not
8 changing in model, size, appearance, then it would answer
9 the question of these people in the sky have always
10 [inaudible].
11 But I have had to struggle trying to get the evidence
12 we saved and I did contact Neil deGrasse Tyson and he
13 informed me with an email, which I put in my book and about
14 these crafts. I find them and film them and send them to
15 everybody I can.
16 He told me to literally take them to the proper
17 authorities and that I could get my evidence looked at and
18 that is what I am doing today. I drove all the way from
19 Ohio, Mr. Kirkpatrick.
20 Senator Gillibrand: Dr. Kirkpatrick is the person --
21 the perfect person to give your evidence to --
22 Audience Member: Yeah, I appreciate it.
23 Senator Gillibrand: -- and eventually we will have a
24 website where you could just submit it and not have to go
25 600 miles. Today, since you are here, please submit your
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IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C)
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