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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.
16 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 On the far right upper corner you will see a breakout 2 of the morphologies of all of the UAP that are reported. 3 Over half, about 52 percent, of what has been reported to us 4 are round or spheres. The rest of those break out into all 5 kinds of different other shapes. 6 The gray box is, essentially, there is no data on what 7 its shape is. Either it was not reported or the sensor did 8 not collect it. The bottom map is a heat map of all 9 reporting areas across the globe that we have available to 10 us. 11 What you will notice is that there is a heavy what we 12 call collection bias both in altitude and in geographic 13 location. That is where all of our sensors exist. That is 14 where our training ranges are. That is where our 15 operational ranges are. That is where all of our platforms 16 are. 17 In the middle what we have done is reduce the most 18 typically reported UAP characteristics to these fields, 19 mostly round, mostly one to four meters, white, silver, 20 translucent, metallic 10,000 to 30,000 feet with apparent 21 velocities from stationary to Mach two. 22 No thermal exhausts are usually detected. We get 23 intermittent radar returns, we get intermittent radio 24 returns, and we get intermittent thermal signatures. That 25 is what we are looking for in trying to understand what that 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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