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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.
24 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 rest of the community so they can see what is going on. 2 In a nutshell, that is the process. So because of 3 that, that takes time. So of those over 650 we have 4 prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous 5 interesting value and now we have to go through those and 6 go, how much do I have actual data for because if all I have 7 is an operator report that says I saw X, Y, or Z, my 8 assessment is A, B, or C, that is not really sufficient. 9 That is a good place to start but I have to have data. 10 I have to have radar data. I have to have EO data. I have 11 to have thermal data. I have to have overhead data, and we 12 need to look at all that. 13 Now, from a big picture perspective I still have -- 14 that is all -- they are still very valuable data and we are 15 looking at applying a lot of things -- new tools, analytic 16 tools, like natural language processing. So I can go across 17 all of those reports and look for commonalities. 18 How many of them are being described as round spherical 19 objects that are maneuvering? How many of them are not 20 maneuvering? How many of them seem to have a plume to it or 21 note? That is also going to be very valuable to give us 22 more of a global picture and a trends analysis of what are 23 we seeing and help us get to the determination. 24 So to go back to your question, ma'am, we have -- this 25 next quarterly report will be coming out here pretty soon.
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