Documents / Official release
This is a stenographic transcript of an April 19, 2023 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, chaired by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, on the mission and budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. AARO released it in full in 2025. Director Sean Kirkpatrick testified that AARO has found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity and that most reports resolve into mundane objects. He also presented trend data and two declassified MQ-9 videos, one of which was resolved as a commuter aircraft.
10 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 congressionally-directed efforts to successfully resolve UAP 2 encountered first and foremost by U.S. military personnel, 3 specifically Navy and Air Force pilots. 4 The law establishing AARO is ambitious and it will take 5 time to realize the full mission. We cannot answer decades 6 of questions about UAP all at once but we must begin 7 somewhere. 8 While I assure you that AARO will follow scientific 9 evidence wherever it leads, I ask for your patience as DOD 10 first prioritizes the safety and security of our military 11 personnel and installations in all domains. 12 After all, UAP encountered first by highly capable DOD 13 and IC platforms featuring the nation's most advanced 14 sensors are those UAP most likely to be resolved by my 15 office, assuming the data can be collected. 16 If AARO succeeds in first improving the ability of 17 military personnel to quickly and confidently resolve UAP 18 they encounter I believe that in time we will have greatly 19 advanced the capability of the entire United States 20 government, including its civilian agencies, to resolve UAP. 21 However, it would be naive to believe that the 22 resolution of all UAP can be solely accomplished by the DOD 23 and IC alone. We will need to prioritize collection and 24 leverage authorities for monitoring all domains within the 25 continental United States. Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 2/6/2025 022
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