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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.

The Pentagon's UFO office has received more than 700
reports, a newly declassified assessment reveals.
It's a dramatic increase in witness sightings and accounts that
adds to a growing list and comes as former Defense
Department officials claim the U.S. has technology far beyond
human capabilities.
The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) received
757 reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) from
May 1, 2023, to June 1, 2024, according to a report declassified
on Thursday.
During that time period, 485 sightings or accounts were
reported, while the rest were sightings from 2021 and 2022
that were not previously filed.
From May 2023 to June 2024, AARO resolved just 118 cases,
attributing them to balloons, birds and drones, while another
174 are queued for closure.
While AARO is investigating a total of 1,652 cases, the office
said in the report that it has "discovered no evidence of
extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology," a point officials
also made in a sprawling report over the spring that looked at
historical cases.
"There are definitely anomalies, but we have not been able to
draw the link to extra-terrestrial," said Jon Kosloski, director of
AARO, in a Thursday briefing with reporters.
Kosloski said the increase in cases is because of greater
engagement and reporting, not necessarily more UAP activity.
He also said there is going to be more AARO education so
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