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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.
“Kosloski”30 pages
DR. KOSLOSKI: Yes. Q: I'm sorry if I've missed it before, but what is AARO or your definition for breakthrough technology? DR. KOSLOSKI: So lots of people, lots of organizations have different definitions. And the definition, the working definition that we've been using informally inside of our office, and we are working on more formal definitions for the different domains for space, the air domain and the undersea domain. But the general definition is beyond state of the art today and beyond where we think that we could get in the next couple years. So we keep an eye on the capabilities of ourselves, our partners and everyone else at the academic and the very technical level. And then if it's beyond that, then we would say that's a breakthrough technology. STAFF: Phil. Q: Just a quick follow-up on your answer to Konstantin. DR. KOSLOSKI: Yes. Q: So, if you need to -- I mean, I guess a lot of Americans have this view of the government as kind of all-knowing and being able to ascertain, you know, everything, particularly when they think of NSA and other agencies. DR. KOSLOSKI: If only. Q: And so, I guess if you could help us explain to readers, you know, what is it about these phenomena that -- that, you know, reach the limits of government of the understanding of the professionals in the government and why it would be necessary to bring in academics? That'd be helpful for us. DR. KOSLOSKI: Great question. So following on Brandi's question, if it's a breakthrough technology by its very nature, we don't know how it would be done, right? If we knew how to do it, we'd be doing it already and it wouldn't be a breakthrough technology. And so, usually those breakthroughs are coming from the academics. Historically, either in science or engineering, the breakthroughs come from academia and then they go into industry and then they come into government. The government's employing a lot of scientists like myself and others who understand a fair amount about the science. But being able to extend that to something that we could not have imagined when we were in school or when we were in training is a very difficult process. And so we're going to have to pull in those folks that they spend all day every day just thinking of what
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