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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.
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44 Scheduling@TP.One 800.FOR.DEPO www.TP.One (800.367.3376) 1 which I am supporting, is really looking at the unclassified 2 data sources that might be used to augment our classified 3 data sources to understand if there is a signature there we 4 can pull on. So very similar to the radars but civil 5 capability. 6 For example, we have a lot of climate science 7 satellites, for example, that look at Earth. Lots of them. 8 How many of those is the data valuable in seeing these 9 kinds of objects? The challenge in that is those platforms 10 do not necessarily have the resolution you need. 11 If you remember the slide I put up there with the 12 trends, the size of the objects we are looking for are 13 typically reported to be one to four meters. 14 Well, the resolution of many of the climate science 15 civil satellites is much larger than that, which means you 16 would have a hard time picking out something that is smaller 17 than a pixel on the imagery on the data. 18 That is not to say all of it is not useful and there 19 are ways of pulling through that data and going through. 20 That is what NASA is focused on right now is what is -- what 21 are some other data sources that could be used. 22 In addition, things like open source and crowd sourcing 23 of data -- we are exploring public-private partnerships, 24 ma'am, as you know -- we have talked about it in the past -- 25 to look at is there a way to smartly crowd source additional 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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