PA-AARO RoundTableTranscript 11-15-24 (FOIA 25-F-3931)

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 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."
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