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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 get down to the specifics for -- there are nonkinetic
2 options to engage pretty much everything whether it is
3 electronic warfare, whether it is laser technologies --
4 Senator Rosen: That is where this data --
5 Mr. Kirkpatrick: That is right.
6 Senator Rosen: Having the good data collection,
7 predictive analytics, you can --
8 Mr. Kirkpatrick: Correct. Inform --
9 Senator Rosen: -- possibly make some assumptions on
10 possibilities.
11 Mr. Kirkpatrick: That is right, and we will inform
12 recommendations back to the department on here is what could
13 work, here is what we have seen work, here is what does not
14 work.
15 Senator Rosen: Thank you so much. Thank you, Madam
16 Chair. Appreciate it.
17 Senator Gillibrand: Thank you very much.
18 I just want to just talk a little bit about your
19 logistics, who you report to, how that is going, whether you
20 need different reporting lines.
21 By congressional legislation your office is
22 administratively located with the office of the Under
23 Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Security but you are
24 not substantively subordinate to the under secretary.
25 Rather, you are a direct report to the deputy

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