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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 Mr. Kirkpatrick: -- those are all things that would be
2 helpful, yes.
3 Senator Rosen: Thank you.
4 Senator Gillibrand: To follow up, Dr. Kirkpatrick,
5 will you help us write that language so we can put it in the
6 defense bill this year so that we know what authorities you
7 need?
8 Mr. Kirkpatrick: Mmm-hmm. We can do that.
9 Senator Gillibrand: Thank you.
10 We are going to start a second round. So if you want
11 to stay you can ask another round. I have at least three
12 more questions.
13 Senator Rosen: I have about a million more questions.
14 Senator Gillibrand: Do you want to -- do you want to
15 go right now so you -- in case you have to leave?
16 Senator Rosen: I feel like I do.
17 Senator Gillibrand: Yeah, go ahead.
18 Senator Rosen: And if you could do that that would be
19 great. I am going to stay on the drones issue because,
20 obviously, of the Air Force Base. We talked about those in
21 -– the last category is the Chinese spy balloon. It did
22 cross through the U.S. airspace, shot down by a Sidewinder
23 missile fired from an F-22.
24 Sidewinders costs us close to half a million dollars
25 each. So given the cost of these missiles, the cost per

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