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These slides from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) accompanied testimony by Director Dr. Jon Kosloski to the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. They were reviewed and released in full in February 2025. They chart UAP reporting trends from 1996 to 2024, showing that most closed cases were resolved as balloons. They also present analyses finding that the 2013 Puerto Rico object, the 2015 GO FAST video and the 2018 Mt. Etna object showed no anomalous flight characteristics.
UNCLASSIFIED ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE (AARO) 4 THE PUERTO RICO OBJECT ▪ Analytic Factors: Perception of objects’ fading in and out due to Thermal Crossover. ▪ Trajectory reconstruction shows the objects traveled southwest in a straight line at a consistent speed of ≈3.6 meters per second while slowly descending to ≈200 meters. ▪ Winds were 7 knots (3.6 m/s) out of the east-northeast. Cloud cover was approximately 50 percent, with scattered clouds at 914 meters (3000 feet). Vector analysis is used to plot the line of sight of the sensor as a function of time. Using a closest-approach method, a track of the object can be estimated UNCLASSIFIED09Page determined to be Unclassified Reviewed by Chief of Staff, AARO IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C) Date: 2/5/2025
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.