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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.
39 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 there tends to be a push to increase size and funding. We 2 want to make sure that you are able to meet your goals. 3 But what I also need to ensure is that we are not 4 duplicating or replicating existing functions and creating 5 redundancy within DOD and the interagency. 6 So what steps are you taking right now to make sure 7 that your particular office and function is unique to any of 8 the other agencies that might be involved in these types of 9 cases? 10 Mr. Kirkpatrick: Yeah, that is a great question. 11 So I would like to lay down here is one of my -- sort 12 of my mission and my goal and my vision here. So the vision 13 is at one point -- at some point in the future you should 14 not need an AARO. 15 If I am successful in what I am doing we should be able 16 to normalize everything that we are doing into existing 17 processes, functions, agencies, and organizations and make 18 that part of their mission and their role. 19 Right now, the niche that we form is really going after 20 the unknowns. If you -- I think you articulated it early on 21 this is a hunt mission for what might somebody be doing in 22 our backyard that we do not know about. 23 All right. Well, that is what we are doing. But at 24 some point we should be able to normalize that. That is why 25 it is so important the work we are doing with Joint Staff to 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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