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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.
28 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 Senator Ernst: Thank you. I appreciate that and that 2 is why it is so important that you are working with the 3 intelligence community as well because you have the science, 4 the data background, but you also need to know from various 5 sources what adversaries may be working on, correct? 6 Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, 7 Madam Chair. 8 Senator Gillibrand: Senator Rosen? 9 Senator Rosen: Well, thank you, Chair Gillibrand, 10 Ranking Member Ernst. This is a really important hearing. 11 I would like to thank you, Dr. Kirkpatrick, for your 12 service to the country and as a former systems analyst 13 myself I really appreciate your flowchart, the description 14 of the process, and particularly the trends analysis, going 15 forward, how that is going to help us and you talked about 16 language, the large LLMs -- the large language models of 17 artificial intelligence. That is really going to help us in 18 the hunt forward, predictive analysis, I think, to some of 19 your point what we worry about. 20 But I want to focus on Nevada because I want to talk 21 about the impact of UAPs on aviation safety. So when it 22 comes to unidentified aerial phenomenal -- phenomena, excuse 23 me -- one of my first concerns is really about the safety of 24 Nevada's military aviator. 25 So we have airmen stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, 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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