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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.
15 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 to do it right. It means adhering to the scientific method 2 and the highest standards of research integrity. It means 3 being methodical and scrupulous. It means withholding 4 judgment in favor of evidence. 5 It means following the data where it leads wherever it 6 leads. It means establishing scientific peer-reviewed 7 theoretical underpinnings of observed data, and AARO is 8 committed to all of those standards. 9 I am proud of AARO's progress over the last nine 10 months. Much remains to be done but the hard work is 11 underway. 12 Thank you for your continued support, and before we 13 turn to questions I am going to walk you through some of our 14 analytical trends in a couple of cases that we have 15 prepared. 16 [Chart is shown.] 17 Mr. Kirkpatrick: So one of the things that AARO does 18 is high-integrity analysis, as I have said. This chart 19 represents the trend analysis of all the cases in AARO's 20 holdings to date. 21 What you will see on the left is a histogram of all of 22 our reported sightings as a function of altitude. So most 23 of our sightings occur in the 15,000- to 25,000-foot range 24 and that is ultimately because that is where a lot of our 25 aircraft are. Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 2/6/2025 022
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 50 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.