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

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1 Senator Gillibrand: Thank you so much, Dr.
2 Kirkpatrick.
3 Can you just give us some raw numbers of how many UAPs
4 you have analyzed, how many have been resolved, and sort of
5 in what buckets and then how many are still left to be
6 resolved? Just an update from your January public report
7 where it was 366 or something and about 150 were balloons
8 and about two dozen were drones. Just give us an update if
9 you have one.
10 Mr. Kirkpatrick: Sure. So as of this week we are
11 tracking over -- a total of 650 cases. Now, the report in
12 January basically said about half of the ones at that time,
13 about 150, were balloon -- were likely balloon like or
14 something like that. That does not mean they are resolved.
15 Senator Gillibrand: Oh, I see.
16 Mr. Kirkpatrick: Okay. So what -- let me walk
17 everyone through what our analytic process looks like.
18 We have, essentially, a five-step process. So we have
19 -- we get our cases in with all the data. We create a case
20 for that event. My team does a preliminary scrub of all of
21 those cases as they come in to sort out do we have any
22 information that says this is in one of those likely
23 categories -- it is likely a balloon, it is likely a balloon
24 -- a bird, it is likely some other object or we do not know.
25 Then we prioritize those based off of where they are.