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This Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (25-F-3931) holds Public Affairs emails from November 14 and 15, 2024, plus the transcript of a media roundtable with AARO Director Jon Kosloski on the FY24 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP. Kosloski said AARO had received over 1,600 reports and found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology. He said the Langley incidents were UAV activity. The release also includes a Hill article covering the report.
“The Pentagon”18 pages
So it's not just eyewitnesses. But in each of the cases I'm particularly interested in, there were multiple eyewitnesses. And there is additional data to go with them. It remains to be seen whether or not that additional data is going to be sufficient for us to either resolve the case, understand whether it's a UAV, bird or balloon, or say something substantive about the nature of the unknown phenomenon. So we're still trying to understand whether or not there's more data available. Because we get the data that comes in from the witnesses. But we also go through a bunch of other sources. Whether or not we can enrich the data that was brought to us and then build a better case. Still digging into it. Q: What are some of the characteristics or are there -- is there a trend among these things? And are they extended period incidents or are they very, very quick? DR. KOSLOSKI: In each of these cases, they were not extended. The cases that I'm thinking of, there was no commonality across the different cases, different morphologies, so orbs, cylinders, triangles. In one of the cases, it has been happening over an extended period of time. And it is possible that there's multiple things happening. There could be some UAV activity in the environment that's getting confused or conflated with the UAP activity, so we're trying to tease that out right now. Q: Just to clarify, earlier, you said Langley was UAVs. This -- who -- the Langley incidents would not be among what you're describing? DR. KOSLOSKI: Correct. Q: OK. DR. KOSLOSKI: Correct. STAFF: Konstantin? Q: Thanks. Konstantin Toropin with Military.com. So one of the sort of key criticisms, I think, around this issue from the hearing yesterday was government transparency, lack of government transparency. I mean, can you sort of speak to that critique and whether you feel that AARO is being overly secretive? If you guys are working on being more transparent, sort of address this criticism from the Hill that you guys are emblematic of a government that overtly classifies everything and? DR. KOSLOSKI: Yes, yes, it's an understandable concern. And I'm going to make a comment. My wife would like me to share more about the UAP incidents too, but I'll -- I guess it's on the record now, so. (Laughter)
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