Office of the Secretary of Defense: 022_SASC_Transcript_2023

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1 AARO's ultimate success will require partnerships with
2 the interagency, industry partners, academia, and the
3 scientific community as well as the public.
4 AARO is partnering with the services, intelligence
5 community, DOE, as well as civil partners and across the
6 U.S. government to tap into the resources of the
7 interagency.
8 The UAP challenge is more an operational and scientific
9 issue than it is an intelligence issue. As such, we are
10 working with industry, academia, and the scientific
11 community which bring their own resources, ideas, and
12 expertise to this challenging problem set.
13 Robust collaboration and peer review across a broad
14 range of partners will promote greater objectivity and
15 transparency in the study of UAP.
16 I want to underscore today that only a very small
17 percentage of UAP reports display signatures that could
18 reasonably be described as anomalous. The majority of
19 unidentified objects reported to AARO demonstrate mundane
20 characteristics of balloons, unmanned aerial systems,
21 clutter, natural phenomena, or other readily explainable
22 sources.
23 While a large number of cases in our holdings remain
24 technically unresolved, this is primarily due to a lack of
25 data associated with those cases. Without sufficient data
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Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO
IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C)
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