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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.
“The Pentagon”18 pages
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 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. 5
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.