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PA-AARO RoundTableTranscript 11-15-24 (FOIA 25-F-3931)

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 2024-11-15 · 40 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

is the next possible thing that you could do if you were just to tweak the equations a little bit
this way or change the material a little bit that way.
And the government, because of our day jobs we don't get to spend all day every day doing that
as much as I would like to.
STAFF: Nick?
Q: Just two small clarification, so the -- what you called interesting cases at the beginning and
then Luis asked you more specific spread out over the last year and a half. Just to be clear, those
are cases that we don't know about, right? Meaning, we have not read about these cases that
you're speaking about?
DR. KOSLOSKI: Correct, correct.
Q: You said to Luis, one of the cases has been happening over extended period of time. I think
Konstantin said ongoing. Just to be clear, that is ongoing or you just -- or was it just happening
over extended period of time? And you're not saying whether it's extended or not?
DR. KOSLOSKI: Extended period of time. It may be ongoing. But we don't know if the current
activity is just drone activity in the environment. And so, we're trying to follow-up on that. We
had put more energy into it earlier on, something flared up and now we're checking on it.
Q: OK.
Q: Ellie, CBS. Just a follow-up on the interesting cases. Are the interesting cases that you're
talking about the 21 cases that merit further analysis or are they part of the active archive?
DR. KOSLOSKI: They're part of the 21, yes, that merit. So the active archive, just so that we're
clear, those are cases where we don't have enough scientific data to continue the analysis.
We're always looking for more. And then when we do, we'll pull those into the merit more
analysis. Yes.
STAFF: Luis
Q: Last year's report in the time frame had 281 new, I believe incidents. Now you have 485.
What do we owe this really large increase to?
DR. KOSLOSKI: So I just -- the new incidents I think to be clear, this -- it had 757.
Q: In your report here, you talk about a total of 757, you know, in the period of the reporting
period.
DR. KOSLOSKI: Yes.

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