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This is an unclassified briefing presentation that Director Seán Kirkpatrick of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office gave at an April 19, 2023 open hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. It summarizes UAP reporting trends from 1996 to 2023. Most reports describe round objects 1 to 4 meters across, and orbs make up 52% of the morphology. It covers two MQ-9 cases: a 2022 Middle East orb that remains unresolved, and a 2023 South Asia object likely resolved as a commercial airliner and a video artifact.
4 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED South Asia, 2023: MQ-9 observed UAP object apparently tailed by potentially-anomalous atmospheric wake CHARACTERISTICS PERFORMANCE SIGNATURES BEHAVIOR EFFECTS Phenomenon observed in other forward-looking infrared, full-motion video by same platform The “trail” appears to be cavitation, similar to those caused during propulsion Visible trail is a camera-software artifact Video-compression algorithms overlay captured image on previous frame and resolve differences in the gray, infrared gradient Analyses of the morphology and traffic-control data suggest the object is commercial aircraft transiting known flight paths Analyses pending peer-review of mission-partners’ analytic findings PENDING PEER-REVIEW South Asia UAP observed with apparent wake, likely resolved as commercial airliner and video-compression artifact, respectively (U)
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