Dr. Jon Kosloski took over AARO after Sean Kirkpatrick left at the end of 2023.
In November 2024 he gave senators the office's numbers in public: more than 1,600 reports, most of them solved as balloons, drones or satellites, a small share still anomalous, and no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
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To date, AARO has not discovered any verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.
AARO does not believe every object is a bird, a balloon, or a UAV. We do have some very anomalous objects.