Documents / Official release
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.
40 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 normalize that into DOD policy and guidance. 2 We are bringing in all of our interagency partners. So 3 NASA is providing a liaison for us. I have FBI liaison. I 4 have OSI liaison. I have service liaisons. Half of my 5 staff come from the IC. Half of my staff come from other 6 scientific and technical backgrounds. I have DOE. 7 And so what we are trying to do is ensure, again, as I 8 make UAP into SEP they get handed off to the people that 9 that is their mission to go do so that we are not 10 duplicating that. 11 I am not going to go chase the Chinese high-altitude 12 balloon, for example. That is not my job. It is not an 13 unknown and it is not anomalous anymore. Now it goes over 14 to them. 15 Senator Ernst: Very good. Thank you, Madam Chair. 16 Senator Gillibrand: Thank you. 17 I want to just follow up on the filters for 18 surveillance. Outside observers have speculated that DOD 19 sets filters on certain sensors to eliminate objects that 20 are moving really fast or slow because what we are looking 21 for militarily are conventional aircraft and missiles. UAP 22 that does not fit into these programs would thereby be 23 weeded out and never noticed. 24 This speculation was proven to be true during the UAP 25 incidents over North America where DOD publicly acknowledged 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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