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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.
US Department of Defense4 CHARACTERISTICS PERFORMANCE SIGNATURES BEHAVIOR EFFECTS South Asia, 2023: MQ-9 observed UAP object apparently tailed by potentially-anomalous atmospheric wake Phenomenon observed in other forward-looking infrared, full-motion video by same platform The “trail” appears to be cavitation, similar to those caused during propulsion Visible trail is a camera-software artifact Video-compression algorithms overlay captured image on previous frame and resolve differences in the gray, infrared gradient Analyses of the morphology and traffic-control data suggest the object is commercial aircraft transiting known flight paths Analyses pending peer-review of mission-partners’ analytic findings CHARACTERISTICS SIGNATURES BEHAVIOR EFFECTS South Asia UAP observed with apparent wake, likely resolved as commercial airliner and video-compression artifact, respectively (U)
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