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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.

  • p. 4 …decades at the National Security Agency where I did advanced research in the areas of optics…
  • p. 5 …None of the cases resolved by AARO have pointed to advanced capabilities or breakthrough technologies. It…
  • p. 6 …And then, after the hearing on the Hill yesterday, lawmakers were saying that they are really…
  • p. 7 …We are going to be starting with the traditional allies of the DOD and the IC…
  • p. 17 …None of the cases resolved by AARO have pointed to advanced capabilities or breakthrough technologies either…
  • p. 25 …Luis Elizondo, the former head of the now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated…
  • p. 26 Grusch alleged the U.S. government has run a secret program to reverse-engineer nonhuman material…
  • p. 32 …Luis Elizondo, the former head of the now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated…
  • p. 33 In the Thursday report, AARO identified 18 reports of UAP sightings near U.S. nuclear weapons…
  • p. 38 …Luis Elizondo, the former head of the now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated…
  • p. 39 …Two of the sightings involved flights of near an hour and near two hours. All the…
pilots and other witnesses are not reporting the same sightings
that can be explained.
AARO says besides balloons and birds, "Starlink and other
mega-constellations in low earth orbit" have led to confused
reporting.
But the report comes just one day after a House Committee on
Oversight and Accountability subcommittee heard from
witnesses that alleged the U.S. government is hiding evidence
of extraterrestrial technology.
Luis Elizondo, the former head of the now-defunct Advanced
Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated
UAPs, told Congress that the government is seeking to "to hide
the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos."
"Advanced technologies not made by our government — or
any other government — are monitoring sensitive military
installations around the globe," he said. "Furthermore, the
U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our
adversaries."
And journalist Michael Shellenberger told lawmakers that
Pentagon sources have told him about a secret program
known as Immaculate Constellation that has gathered high-
quality images of UAPs.
The testimony adds to sweeping claims made last year by
retired Maj. David Grusch, who was formerly part of the
Pentagon's UAP task force and a former intelligence officer in
the Air Force and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
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