22-F-1364_2.pdf

ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE 
The Defense Department's 
UAP Mission 
Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. 
Director 

 
 
AARO is a uniquely-capable, Defense Department & Intelligence Community organization 
that integrates operational, scientific, and intelligence capabilities to resolve UAP. 
our mission 
minimize technical and intelligence surprise 
and reduce operational risks, by 
synchronizing scientific, intelligence, and 
operational detection, identification, 
attribution, and mitigation of unidentified, 
anomalous objects in the vicinity of national 
security areas 
our vision 
unidentified, anomalous objects are 
effectively and efficiently detected, tracked, 
analyzed, and managed by way of 
norma…

 
 
 
The potentially ubiquitous presence of UAP defines the national-security 
implications and drives the broad range of stakeholders and demand for 
ricorous scientific understanding of and intelligence on phenomena 
US Territory & Operating Areas 
— DoD observations and reporting of 
UAP most often in the vicinity of US 
military facilities and operating areas 
— Threats to the immediate safety of US 
citizens and Government facilities, 
across domains, is priority 
— Safety and security risks of UAP 
heighten US Government awareness 
and drives research and mitigation 
efforts 
as Key par…

AARO leads integration of the Department's UAP operations, research, analyses, and 
strategic-communications to deliver exquisite data, advanced sensors, sound analytics, 
and shared mission awareness and ownership 
, 
synchronizing and 
sequencing Theater, IC, 
and other capabilities for 
optimized, cross-
functional UAP 
detection, tracking, 
mitigation, and recovery 
Integrated Operations 
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revealing and exploiting 
elusive and enigmatic 
signatures through 
advanced technologies 
and focused, cross-
sector partnerships 
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delivering peer…

 
Our mission success and our ability to contribute to 
domain safety and national security depends on 
observations and insights from across sectors 
Educate 
The subject of UAP is laden with decades 
of imprecise—and often sensational— 
information 
Promulgating accurate information about 
UAP, their implications to domain safety 
and national security, and our 
commitment to resolving them is 
foundational to our partnership with 
communities. 
Sharing what UAP data is critically-
important for scientific and intelligence 
analyses allows aviators and crews to 
optimize the value of their o…

What kind of information would be necessary and 
sufficient for UAP analyses? 
about the phenomenon 
— UAP-event description or narrative 
— 
UAP location relative to the observer, 
with as much precision as practicable 
—Number of UAP-objects observed 
during the phenomenon and 
indications of intra UAP-object 
coordination and/or communication 
— Indications of advanced and/or 
enigmatic capabilities 
— UAP characteristics, including physical 
state (e.g., solid, liquid, gas, plasma); 
description (e.g., size, shape, color); 
signatures; propulsion means; payload 
— 
UAP performance envelope…