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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.
41 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 that we were able to start seeing these UAPs only when we 2 opened up these filters. 3 Obviously, our military operators cannot be overloaded 4 with objects that are not conventional aircraft or missiles. 5 Can you nonetheless make sure that the raw data is being 6 captured and subsequently processed so that your office 7 knows what is really out there and is that going to cost 8 money? Will you expect to pay for that money out of AARO's 9 budget? 10 Mr. Kirkpatrick: One of the key tenets that we are 11 trying to do in our science plan is understand what those 12 signatures are. So we get all the raw, for example, radar 13 data prior to the scrubbing and filtering to allow it to 14 enter into our weapon systems and our detection systems. 15 We are now taking all that data and cross correlating 16 it to what pilots are saying they are seeing or other 17 observations from other operators. 18 What that allows us to do is then see if there are any 19 signatures in that data that I can pull out, generate what 20 we will call automatic target recognition algorithms that 21 allow us to then use that signature associated with a 22 observed UAP whatever that UAP may be. 23 We will then make those recommendations of what those 24 changes should be back to the department. So the deputy 25 secretary had asked me last October to make those 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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