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20230418_AARO_Congressional_Open_Hearing_final_2.0.pdf
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ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE US Department of Defense The US Department of Defense & the UAP Mission Seán Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Director, AARO UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED
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REPORTED-UAP ALTITUDES TYPICALLY-REPORTED UAP CHARACTERISTICS Mt Everest Commercial Air Traffic Weather Balloons REPORTED UAP-MORPHOLOGY ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE 2 UAP Reporting Trends 1996-2023 9.2% 7.8% 16.5% 32.2% 23.5% 6.4% 2.5% 0.6% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.6% 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K 30K 35K 40K 45K 50K 55K 60K 100K REPORTED-UAP HOTSPOTS Appearance Morphology Round, Atypical Orientation Size 1-4 meters Color White, Silver, Translucent Performance Altitude 10K – 30K feet Velocity Stationary to Mach 2 Signatures Propulsion No thermal exhaust detected Radar Intermittent, X-Band (8-12 GHz) Ra…
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US Department of Defense 3 CHARACTERISTICS PERFORMANCE SIGNATURES BEHAVIOR EFFECTS Middle East, 2022: MQ-9 observed apparent spherical UAP via electro-optical sensors UAP characteristics and behavior consistent with other “metallic orb” observations in the region No demonstration of enigmatic technical capabilities and no apparent threat to airborne- asset safety Case in “active archive,” pending discovery of additional data AARO uses active-archive cases for trend and statistical analyses CHARACTERISTICS PERFORMANCE SIGNATURES BEHAVIOR EFFECTS Middle East UAP, unresolved (U)
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US Department of Defense 4 CHARACTERISTICS PERFORMANCE SIGNATURES BEHAVIOR EFFECTS South Asia, 2023: MQ-9 observed UAP object apparently tailed by potentially-anomalous atmospheric wake Phenomenon observed in other forward-looking infrared, full-motion video by same platform The “trail” appears to be cavitation, similar to those caused during propulsion Visible trail is a camera-software artifact Video-compression algorithms overlay captured image on previous frame and resolve differences in the gray, infrared gradient Analyses of the morphology and traffic-control data suggest the…
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Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Director, AARO
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