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Office of the Secretary of Defense: 030_SASC_Brief_2023

Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. · 2023 · 5 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is a 2023 briefing for the Senate Armed Services Committee from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, presented by Director Seán Kirkpatrick. It was released in full in 2025. It covers UAP reporting trends from 1996 to 2023, typical characteristics such as round shapes 1 to 4 meters across, and two MQ-9 cases. A 2022 Middle East spherical object remains unresolved. A 2023 South Asia object with an apparent wake was likely a commercial airliner plus a video-compression artifact.

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# UAP Reporting Trends

1996-2023

## REPORTED-UAP ALTITUDES

TYPICALLY-REPORTED UAP CHARACTERISTICS

Appearance	Morphology	Round,Atypical Orientation
Size	1-4 Meters
Color	White, Silver,Translucent
Performance	Altitude	10k-30k feet
Velocity	Stationary to Mach2
Signatures	Propulsion	No thermal exhaust detected
Radar	Intermittent,X-Band(8-12GHz)
Radio	1-3GHz,8-12GHz
Thermal	Intermittent,ShortwaveInfrared,Medium-WaveInfrared

REPORTED UAP-MORPHOLOGY

REPORTED-UAP HOTSPOTS

Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 2/6/2025

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