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This is a slide presentation from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, given by Director Dr. Jon Kosloski at an open hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on November 19, 2024. It charts UAP reporting trends from 1996 to October 2024, showing that 75 percent of closed cases were resolved as balloons. It also gives AARO's case resolutions for the 2013 Puerto Rico object, the 2015 GO FAST video and the 2018 Mt. Etna object, finding nothing anomalous in any of them.
UNCLASSIFIED ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE (AARO) ▪ Event: On April 26, 2013, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) aircraft recorded infrared (IR) video of a potential unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) over Puerto Rico’s Rafael Hernandez Airport. The video appears to show an object traveling at high speed, splitting into two objects, and entering and exiting the water. The object was deemed anomalous based on these initial perceptions. ▪ Findings: AARO, in coordination with Intelligence Community (IC) and Science and Technology (S&T) partners assess with high confidence that the UAP did not demonstrate any anomalous speeds or flight characteristics. ▪ Two distinct objects were airborne in proximity to each other, rather than a single object splitting into two. ▪ Modeling and Minimum Separation Vectors analysis indicates the illusion of splitting was likely due to the changing angle of sensor view allowing only intermittent views of both objects. ▪ The perception of high speed was attributed to motion parallax. ▪ Reconstruction confirmed the objects traveled at wind speed in a straight line over land during the entire observation period, never entering the water. THE PUERTO RICO OBJECT 3UNCLASSIFIED
Official release, from the aaro collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.