Senate Armed Services hearing on AARO (2023)
🏛️ U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee
AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick testified to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities about the office’s mission, activities and budget.
Key points
- He said AARO had found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity or technology that breaks the laws of physics.
- He showed a 2022 clip of a small “orb” filmed by a military drone over the Middle East, still unresolved.
- He described plans to put better sensors on the problem instead of relying on old footage.
Why it matters
It was AARO’s first public testimony and set out how the office planned to work.
Read it yourself
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U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. (2023). Senate Armed Services hearing on AARO (2023). https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-the-mission-activities-oversight-and-budget-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-officeRelated records
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