The search for answers to the persistent mysteries of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), continues at the Pentagon. Dr. Jon Kosloski is taking over the reins of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (ARRO), replacing Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, who left the office at the end of 2023. The new director will have his hands full working to find explanations for the all too often unexplainable.
ARRO Investigative Work on UAP Has Continued
Since Kirkpatrick retired, the ARRO has not had a permanent director; however, the work has moved steadily forward. As the ARRO official web page explains, the Pentagon agency is focused on exploring, understanding, and explaining, if possible, reports of sightings or experiences with UAP. One of the first tasks the office discusses with its web viewers is to define UAP.
That’s important because the definition limits the responsibilities of the investigative landscape. For example, as an introduction, “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) means airborne objects that are not immediately identifiable; transmedium objects or devices; and submerged objects or devices that are not immediately identifiable.” UAP are further defined as “not yet attributable to known actors and demonstrate behaviors that sensors or observers do not readily understand.”The phrase “sensors or observers do not readily understand” is significant because one criticism of UAP sightings by military aircrew is that, when they’re flying, the military aircraft radars, with forward-looking infrared and low-level light television sensors, are unsuitable for UAP analysis. However, NASA, as a collaborator with the ARRO, does have access to the necessary tools for such analysis like “gravitational wave, geomagnetic wave detection, and the means to analyze open source and crowd-sourced data,” all of which are useful in getting a broader understanding of the myriad UAP accounts.
According to his background, Dr. Kozloski brings an ideally suitable skill set for the job. Experience in “quantum optics and crypto-mathematics, as well as leading mission-oriented research and analysis teams,” will help the new director assess the highly technical, complex scientific data that attends ferreting out truth from fiction with UAP encounters. Furthermore, Kozloski’s previous job with the National Security Agency will give him credibility with the intelligence community. The latest Report on the Historical Record of US Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I, released February 2024, illustrates that the ARRO has embarked on a comprehensive investigation of historical and contemporary UAP sightings. There will be two volumes, with the first covering ARRO findings from 1945 to October 31, 2023. The next will review the data evaluated from November 1, 2023, to April 15, 2024.
Additionally, the ARRO report is a thorough work that provides a history of the numerous investigative efforts to pursue UFO sightings and gives a more recent UAP analysis. For those naysayers who maintain that the US government has not given enough time to the UAP subject or has not provided the public with sufficient transparency, the report’s historical perspective belies that point of view.
Claims of Extraterrestrials Get Thorough Vetting
A significant and timely aspect of the most recent ARRO report is its discussion regarding discoveries found in the congressional testimony by former military officers who have claimed extraterrestrial spacecraft and “non-human” beings exist. ARRO investigators were particularly thorough in interviewing individuals “who have spoken with congressional staff or Members of Congress and have been subsequently referred to ARRO” for interviews.
One example discussed in the report is the assertion by an interviewee that in a conversation, “a named former military officer explained in detail how he physically touched an extraterrestrial spacecraft is inaccurate.” When the named officer was asked about this story, “The claim was denied on the record by the named former officer.” The conclusion was that the officer may have been talking about his touching the skin of the formerly classified “F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter.” But the former officer did “not recall having this conversation with the interviewee.”
The concluding finding of Vol. I is that, to date, “ARRO has not discovered any empirical evidence that any sighting of a UAP represented off-world technology or the existence of a classified program that had not been properly reported to Congress.” Nonetheless, ARRO’s evaluation of the UAP data is that many reports “remain unsolved.” In the past, of the well over 800 more recent sightings or encounters with UAP, 2% to 5% are unexplained.
For many, the Pentagon’s UAP investigative office’s first report is disappointing because it does not provide more validation of the existence of extraterrestrial spacecraft or alien beings. The more pragmatic national security interests, however, are served by ARRO, in that it does not find the existence of global adversaries in possession of technology more advanced than what the US possesses.
The mission of the ARRO is to “Minimize technical and intelligence surprise by synchronizing scientific, intelligence, and operational detection identification, attribution, and mitigation of unidentified anomalous phenomena in the vicinity of national security areas.” The Department of Defense has taken on this task and is working diligently to ensure American citizens will not be in peril from a hostile adversary with previously unknown advanced weaponry.
For the true believer that we are not alone in the universe, there is still the 2% to 5% of UAP for which there is no explanation.
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