Office of the Secretary of Defense: 022_SASC_Transcript_2023

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1 When previously unknown objects are successfully identified
2 it is AARO's role to quickly and efficiently hand off such
3 readily explainable objects to the intelligence, law
4 enforcement, or operational safety communities for further
5 analysis and appropriate action.
6 In other words, AARO's mission is to turn UAP into SEP,
7 somebody else's problem. The U.S. government, the DOD, and
8 the IC in particular has tremendous capabilities to deal
9 with those encountered objects.
10 In the wake of the PRC HAB event the interagency is
11 working to better integrate and share information to address
12 identifiable stratospheric objects but that is not AARO's
13 lane.
14 Meanwhile, for the few cases in all domains -- space,
15 air, and sea -- that do demonstrate potentially anomalous
16 characteristics AARO exists to help the DOD, IC, and
17 interagency resolve those anomalous cases.
18 In doing so AARO is approaching these cases with the
19 highest level of objectivity and analytic rigor. This
20 includes physically testing and employing, modeling, and
21 simulation to validate our analyses and underlying theories,
22 then peer reviewing those results within the U.S.
23 government, industry partners, and appropriately cleared
24 academic institutions before reaching any conclusions.
25 I should also state clearly for the record that in our
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Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO
IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C)
Date: 2/6/2025
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