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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…
Grusch alleged the U.S. government has run a secret program
to reverse-engineer nonhuman material from crash sites of
UAP vessels.
While they have denied any link to alien technology, AARO,
which was formed in 2022, is taking a more serious approach
to investigating UAP sightings than the U.S. government
historically has in the past.
Some of the most crucial sightings remain unexplained, such
as the "Tic Tac" UFO sighting in 2004 from Navy pilots flying off
the coast of southern California.
Recently there have been sightings near sensitive U.S. military
sites, including dozens of UAP in December 2023 at Langley Air
Force Base. The Pentagon later said those UAP were
unidentified drones.
In the Thursday report, AARO identified 18 reports of UAP
sightings near U.S. nuclear weapons sites, with 10 of those
involving flights of five minutes over the sensitive area. Two of
the sightings involved flights of near an hour and near two
hours. All the sightings involved just one or two UAP.
AARO said that so far it is not aware of "advanced foreign
adversarial capabilities or breakthrough aerospace
technologies."
"We have not been able to correlate any UAP activity to
adversarial collection activities or advanced technologies," he
said, though adding that AARO would increase global outreach
and partnerships in 2025.
But Kosloski said that UAPs harboring breakthrough
technologies remain a mystery, describing a breakthrough
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Cases discussed

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