All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) set up (2022)
🏛️ U.S. Department of Defense
The Defense Department created AARO to replace its short-lived Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, widening the job from the air to every domain.
Key points
- “All-domain” covers space, air, sea and underwater, plus objects said to move between them.
- Physicist Sean Kirkpatrick was its first director; Jon Kosloski later took over.
- AARO runs a public website with resolved cases and a reporting form for current and former government staff.
Why it matters
AARO is the U.S. government’s official UAP office today, and the author of most later reports.
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U.S. Department of Defense. (2022). All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) set up (2022). https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3100053/dod-announces-the-establishment-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office/Related records
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