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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…
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.
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.
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