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The Mission, Activities, Oversight, and Budget of the All - Domain Anomaly Resolution Office

U.S. Senate · 2023-04-19 · 26 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the transcript of an April 19, 2023 hearing of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, chaired by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. AARO Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick testified on the office's mission, budget, data collection and review of the historical record. He said AARO had found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity or off-world technology. He also presented trend data and two declassified MQ-9 videos, and one of them was resolved as a commuter aircraft.

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  • p. 7 …As Members know, your office evolved from the Navy-led Uniden- tified Aerial Phenomena Task Force…
  • p. 8 …military personnel, specifically Navy and Air Force pilots. The law establishing AARO is ambitious and it…
  • p. 17 …Previously, I used to be the Defense Department’s intelligence of- ficer for science and technical…
  • p. 18 …As a result, in 2019, the Navy established a protocol for pilots to report on their…
  • p. 19 …Kirkpatrick, will you help us write that language so we can put it in the defense…
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Audience Member. I am a marine, so my hearing is a little blunt.
If I could leave this with you——
Senator GILLIBRAND. Yes.
Audience Member.—and somebody can give it to Dr. Kirkpatrick
would be great.
Senator GILLIBRAND. Yes.
Audience Member. That is my whole point. I just leave it on this
desk?
Senator GILLIBRAND. Yes. Yes. I will take it——
Audience Member. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for looking
into it.
Senator GILLIBRAND. Do you have a card? We have to give our
business cards to the Chair. The first draft and then [inaudible] are
you done with it?
Staff. Sure.
Senator GILLIBRAND. Yes. Why don’t you take it since you are ac-
tually going to—I am going to give it to Dr. Kirkpatrick and then
[inaudible].
[Whereupon, at 12:08 p.m., the Subcommittee adjourned.]
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