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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.
Q: But those near military sites and facilities? DR. KOSLOSKI: Until we get the information approved for release, I'd rather not say where those sightings were, but definitely interesting sightings. Q: OK. Thank you. Tanya Nori with NewsNation. Can you please speak to AARO's involvement in investigating incidents of drone or UAP, UAV incursions at the U.S. southern border with Mexico? DR. KOSLOSKI: So we -- I'm not that familiar with any specific investigations that we have -- that AARO has supported for UAP or sorry, UAS, UAV activity near the southern border. We have had several UAP cases that have been brought to us that were near the border that we've investigated. I believe that we have resolved the cases that have been brought to us. And we're working on downgrading those so that we can share those. Q: And do you -- can you speak to the procedures that are in place for Border Patrol agents to report UFO sightings? And how are those reports handled and investigated by the Pentagon overall and by AARO specifically? DR. KOSLOSKI: So at this time, I don't believe we have a formal mechanism for Border Patrol to report to AARO. Right now, the only formal mechanism is through the DOD. And we're working on expanding that across the government through the interagency and for public reporting. We expect that formally to be in place hopefully in 2025. Right now, we're getting those cases more through partnerships that those folks have with DOD or counterintelligence members. STAFF: Luis? Q: Hi. Luis Martinez with ABC News. Thank you for doing this and welcome. DR. KOSLOSKI: Thank you for coming. Q: Yes. I would like to follow-up on that earlier question about incidents you cannot explain based on your, you know, broad experience. A couple of follow-ups on that, please. Were these all within the last year? Were these all at the same location? Were you looking at video evidence? Or what are the metrics that you're looking at that you cannot explain? DR. KOSLOSKI: Great question. So of the cases that I'm thinking of, there's a variety of them. The cases that are top of my mind are spread out over the last year and a half. I'm sure that there's some other anomalous ones a little further back. But the ones that I'm particularly most interested in are the last year and a half. There is some video footage for a few of the cases, not all of the cases.
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.