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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.
Q: Of which 485 were from this year and then the remainder were from previous. DR. KOSLOSKI: Oh, yes. Yes. Q: But then, in last year's report, which was from -- and I'm looking at my notes here — DR. KOSLOSKI: Why the ramp up in reporting? Q: Yes, I mean an additional 200, I mean in the same reporting period? DR. KOSLOSKI: Yes. Engagement. Q: Right. DR. KOSLOSKI: So we're -- we have the GENADMIN out. We're engaged with the services. We're engaging more with the services, helping them understand what qualifies as a UAP, how to report it. And we're getting more reports of the anomalous activity. It's not that there's -- we don't believe that there's necessarily more anomalous activity. It's just, we're getting greater, greater reporting. And we expect as we continue that engagement with the services, but also across the IC and the rest of the government to the question earlier, we're going to see that reporting go up as well. We're going to follow that with education campaigns, so that for example, the FAA is providing us reports now as well. So we're getting reports from the pilots. Some of the reports from the pilots are Starlink flares, so light glinting off of satellites at just the right time of the evening. It looks interesting and potentially anomalous. But we can model that and we can show pilots what that anomaly looks like, so that that doesn't get reported to us necessarily. So we're going to follow up the engagement campaigns with education campaigns so that as we're increasing the number of accounts that come to us, we're not just getting more of the noise and trying to keep it focused on the interesting. STAFF: Oren. Q: Just a very quick question on the active archive, do you have an instance or instances where you have gotten more information for an event in the active archive and have pulled it out or is that? DR. KOSLOSKI: Thank you for asking. We do, yes. (Laughter)
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