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Transcript: Briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities - Open Hearing: April 19, 2023

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 2023 · 50 pages · text from the file's own layer

This stenographic transcript records an April 19, 2023 open hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, chaired by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, on the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Director Sean Kirkpatrick testified that AARO was tracking about 650 cases and had found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity or off-world technology. He presented trend data and two declassified MQ-9 videos, one unresolved and one resolved as a commuter aircraft.

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1 congressionally-directed efforts to successfully resolve UAP
2 encountered first and foremost by U.S. military personnel,
3 specifically Navy and Air Force pilots.
4 The law establishing AARO is ambitious and it will take
5 time to realize the full mission. We cannot answer decades
6 of questions about UAP all at once but we must begin
7 somewhere.
8 While I assure you that AARO will follow scientific
9 evidence wherever it leads, I ask for your patience as DOD
10 first prioritizes the safety and security of our military
11 personnel and installations in all domains.
12 After all, UAP encountered first by highly capable DOD
13 and IC platforms featuring the nation's most advanced
14 sensors are those UAP most likely to be resolved by my
15 office, assuming the data can be collected.
16 If AARO succeeds in first improving the ability of
17 military personnel to quickly and confidently resolve UAP
18 they encounter I believe that in time we will have greatly
19 advanced the capability of the entire United States
20 government, including its civilian agencies, to resolve UAP.
21 However, it would be naive to believe that the
22 resolution of all UAP can be solely accomplished by the DOD
23 and IC alone. We will need to prioritize collection and
24 leverage authorities for monitoring all domains within the
25 continental United States.

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