Documents / FOIA release
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.
technology as "beyond state of the art today and beyond where we think that we could get in the next couple of years." "We don't fully understand the phenomenon enough to say whether or not it's breakthrough technology," added Kosloski. "So it's a very small percentage of our overall cases that, after the initial analysis, still have the anomalous characteristics that one could attribute breakthrough technologies to. It's less than two-and-a-half percent of our cases, and we're still studying those." Kosloski also addressed criticism from lawmakers that his office has not been transparent enough about UAPs or is classifying too much information. He said officials are working "to downgrade that material as much as we can," and are implementing efforts to increase declassification, but still have their hands tied because they must work with partners on the cases. "We need to make sure that we're protecting sensitive sources, methods, vulnerabilities," he said. "So even though that there's nothing inherently classified about the existence of a UAP, we have to protect that information when AARO receives those interesting cases." (b)(6) Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Media Analysis (ManTech) (b)(6) 7
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 40 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.