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

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1 retained from all the associated sensors.
2 That, historically, has not been the case and it has
3 been happenstance that data has been collected.
4 Next slide.
5 This particular event, South Asia MQ-9 looking at
6 another MQ-9, and what is highlighted there in that red
7 circle is an object that flies through the screen. Unlike
8 the previous one, this one actually shows some really
9 interesting things that everyone thought was truly anomalous
10 to start with.
11 First of all, it is a high-speed object that is flying
12 in the field of regard of two MQ-9s. Second, it appears to
13 have this trail behind it, which at first blush you would
14 think that looks like a propulsion trail.
15 In reality, if you want to play the first slide we will
16 show you what that looks like in real time, or first video.
17 So we are looking at that. There it goes. Why do you not
18 play it again and then pause it halfway through? Right
19 there. All right.
20 You might be able to see that trail there behind it.
21 That is actually not a real trail. That is a sensor
22 artifact. Each one of those little blobs is actually a
23 representation of the object as it is moving through, and
24 later in the video as the camera slews that trail actually
25 follows the direction of the camera, not the direction of