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AARO Congressional Open Hearing final 2.0

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 2023-04-18 · 5 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is an unclassified briefing deck from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, presented by Director Seán Kirkpatrick for an open congressional hearing and cleared for publication on April 17, 2023. It covers UAP reporting trends from 1996 to 2023, including altitude distribution, reporting hotspots and typical characteristics such as round shapes, 1 to 4 meter size and no detected thermal exhaust. It presents two MQ-9 cases: an unresolved 2022 Middle East metallic orb and a 2023 South Asia object likely resolved as a commercial airliner with a video-compression artifact.

REPORTED-UAP ALTITUDES TYPICALLY-REPORTED UAP CHARACTERISTICS
Mt Everest
Commercial Air Traffic
Weather Balloons
REPORTED UAP-MORPHOLOGY
A L L - D O M A I N A N O M A L Y R E S O L U T I O N O F F I C E
2
UAP Reporting Trends
1996-2023
9.2%
7.8%
16.5%
32.2%
23.5%
6.4%
2.5%
0.6%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.6%
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20K
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30K
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REPORTED-UAP HOTSPOTS
Appearance Morphology Round,
Atypical Orientation
Size 1-4 meters
Color White, Silver, Translucent
Performance
Altitude 10K – 30K feet
Velocity Stationary to Mach 2
Signatures
Propulsion No thermal exhaust detected
Radar Intermittent, X-Band (8-12 GHz)
Radio 1-3 GHz, 8-12 GHz
Thermal Intermittent, Shortwave Infrared,
Medium-Wave Infrared
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CLEARED FOR OPEN PUBLICATION
APR 17, 2023
Department of Defense
Office of Prepublication and Security Review
1, 52%
2, 23%
3, 6%
4, 5%
5, 3%
6, 2%
7, 2%
8, 2%
9, 1%
10, 1%
11, 1%
12, 1%
13, 0%

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