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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.
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(b)(6) From: Gough, Susan L (Sue) CIV OSD PA (USA) Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2024 9:29 PM To: Kb)(6) (USA); Kosloski, Jon T SES (USA) Subject: Press Briefing Extracts Below are extracts related to AARO/UAP from today's on-camera press briefing by Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh: [opening remarks] Separately, today, the department also delivered its Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP, to congress. The department has briefed relevant congressional staff on the report's filings. As of today, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, has received over 1,600 UAP reports, 757 of which came to AARO during the period covered by this report. AARO has successfully resolved hundreds of cases in its holdings to commonplace objects such as balloons, birds, drones, satellites and aircraft. Over 900 reports lack sufficient data for analysis, and AARO retains these cases in an active archive, and they may be reopened and resolved should additional information emerge to support analysis. I want to emphasize that only a very small percentage of reports to AARO are potentially anomalous. But these are the cases that require significant time, resources and focused scientific inquiry by AARO and its partners. It is also important to underscore that to date, the department has discovered no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology. None of the cases resolved by AARO have pointed to advanced capabilities or breakthrough technologies either. [Q&A with reporters; in the below, Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, is the only reporter who asked about the report.] Q: Hi, can you talk a little more about the unidentified aerial phenomena and one of the accusations, it's not in the report but that the department has with in storage the remains of aliens or signs of life from elsewhere. Can you settle that once and for all? Do you or don't you have such remains? DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SINGH: Yeah, so I'm not aware of any remains that the department has of, you know, any signs of extraterrestrial beings or activity or technology. And I'm sorry, what was your second question or your first question? Q: Well, it's really about that and then also what the top line finding in this report. DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SINGH: So the report again was briefed to members of Congress and from what I read out at the top, I really don't have more to provide, but the relevant staff and committee members were notified about the report. You know, part of this annual report submitted to Congress is accountability and to ensure that we continue to keep members updated through our AARO office. Go ahead. Q: But have you found any evidence of foreign involvement in any of these unidentified aerial phenomena? DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SINGH: Yeah, to date the department has not discovered any verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology and or nor verifiable information to substantiate claims that, you know, 1
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