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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.
2 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND, U.S. 2 SENATOR FROM NEW YORK 3 Senator Gillibrand: The hearing will come to order. 4 I would first like to thank our witness, Dr. Sean 5 Kirkpatrick, for testifying here and in today's earlier 6 closed session, and for his long and distinguished career 7 both in the intelligence community and in the Department of 8 Defense. 9 Dr. Kirkpatrick is the director of the All-Domain 10 Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO. Congress established 11 this office in law to get to the bottom of the very serious 12 problem of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP. 13 Dr. Kirkpatrick has a very difficult mission. While we 14 have made progress there remains a stigma attached to these 15 phenomenon. There is a vast and complex citizen engagement 16 and there is also very challenging scientific and technical 17 hurdles. 18 So we appreciate the willingness of Dr. Kirkpatrick to 19 lean in on this issue and the work that he has accomplished 20 thus far and we look forward to both his opening statement 21 and his presentation of examples of the work AARO has done. 22 In late 2017 media reports surfaced about activities 23 set in motion by the late long-serving Majority Leader 24 Senator Harry Reid more than a decade ago. We learned that 25 there was strong evidence of advanced technology reflected 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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