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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.

  • p. 3 …Kirkpatrick is the director of the All-Domain 10 Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO. Congress established…
  • p. 7 …6 The recent downing of the Chinese surveillance balloon 7 and three other objects underscores the…
  • p. 11 …we will have greatly 19 advanced the capability of the entire United States 20 government, including…
  • p. 26 …A handful of them 8 have made it all the way out to the other side…
  • p. 27 …19 Is it possible that the Chinese or Russian advanced 20 technologies could be causing some…
  • p. 28 …17 The adversary is not waiting. They are advancing and 18 they are advancing quickly. If…
  • p. 30 …5 And, unfortunately, the existence of advanced UAPs in 6 the U.S. airspace and over…
  • p. 48 …our advanced weapons and 12 manufacturing industry, monitor it using advanced means like 13 the -- 14…
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1 people need to come forward. We need to pull up engineers
2 out of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and allow them the freedom
3 to speak and stop the secrecy. Thank you for hearing me.
4 Senator Gillibrand: My office can be a clearinghouse
5 for this information.
6 Audience Member: Yes, Ms. Gillibrand. I have got
7 video of it.
8 Senator Gillibrand: If you want to submit to me the
9 names and the people that you want Dr. Kirkpatrick has
10 contacts. I can do that, and any video that you want to
11 give us, eventually we will have a platform so this can be
12 done automatically. But I could [inaudible] and give it to
13 Dr. Kirkpatrick. If you have it on a DVD --
14 Audience Member: I want to thank you.
15 Senator Gillibrand: -- to get it to him directly.
16 Audience Member: I am a Marine so my hearing is a
17 little blunt. So if I could leave this with you --
18 Senator Gillibrand: Yes.
19 Audience Member: -- and somebody can give it to Dr.
20 Kirkpatrick would be great.
21 Senator Gillibrand: Yes.
22 Audience Member: That is my whole point. I just leave
23 it on this desk?
24 Senator Gillibrand: Yeah. Yeah. I will take it --
25 Audience Member: I appreciate it. Thank you so much

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