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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 022_SASC_Transcript_2023

Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. · 2023 · 50 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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1 people need to come forward. We need to pull up engineers
2 out of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and allow them the freedom
3 to speak and stop the secrecy. Thank you for hearing me.
4 Senator Gillibrand: My office can be a clearinghouse
5 for this information.
6 Audience Member: Yes, Ms. Gillibrand. I have got
7 video of it.
8 Senator Gillibrand: If you want to submit to me the
9 names and the people that you want Dr. Kirkpatrick has
10 contacts. I can do that, and any video that you want to
11 give us, eventually we will have a platform so this can be
12 done automatically. But I could [inaudible] and give it to
13 Dr. Kirkpatrick. If you have it on a DVD --
14 Audience Member: I want to thank you.
15 Senator Gillibrand: -- to get it to him directly.
16 Audience Member: I am a Marine so my hearing is a
17 little blunt. So if I could leave this with you --
18 Senator Gillibrand: Yes.
19 Audience Member: -- and somebody can give it to Dr.
20 Kirkpatrick would be great.
21 Senator Gillibrand: Yes.
22 Audience Member: That is my whole point. I just leave
23 it on this desk?
24 Senator Gillibrand: Yeah. Yeah. I will take it --
25 Audience Member: I appreciate it. Thank you so much
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