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   DOD Office Moving Ahead in Mission to Identify `Anomalous Phenomena'   
      
   John Greenewald   
   18 Dec 2022   
   The Black Vault   
      
   	[We're] working with the military departments and the Joint   
   	Staff to normalize, integrate and expand UAP reporting beyond   
   	the aviators - to all service members - including mariners,   
   	submariners and our space Guardians."   
   	- Sean M. Kirkpatrick, Director, AARO   
      
   The following press release was sent out on Sat, Dec 17,   
   2022, and is archived here for reference and research purposes. It was   
   written by C. Todd Lopez on behalf of DOD News.   
      
   In July, the DOD set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to,   
   among other things, identify `unidentified anomalous phenomena' which   
   might pose a threat to national security and the operations of both   
   the military and other federal agencies.   
      
   "Unidentified anomalous phenomena," is anything in space, in the air,   
   on land, in the sea or under the sea that can't be identified, and   
   which might pose a threat to US military installations or   
   operations.   
      
   "We have an important and yet challenging mission to lead an   
   interagency effort to document, collect, analyze and when possible,   
   resolve reports of any unidentified anomalous phenomena," said Sean   
   M. Kirkpatrick, the director of AARO.   
      
   Since the AARO office stood up this summer, Kirkpatrick said his team   
   there has made significant headway in setting up its mission.   
      
   "We've transferred the data and responsibilities from the previous   
   Navy-led UAP task force, and disestablished it," he said. "During that   
   transition, we've taken the opportunity to expand and standardize and   
   integrate UAP reporting and reevaluate the data we've collected."   
      
   The AARO has an array of UAP reports that are historical in nature to   
   evaluate, and it is also getting new reports in as well. Kirkpatrick   
   said the AARO will need to apply "a rigorous methodology" to the work   
   of analyzing both old and new reports and that his team has developed   
   an analytic framework to do just that.   
      
   In the past, the type of work AARO is charged with performing now   
   involved only reports of anomalous phenomena that were seen in the   
   air. But that has changed. Now, AARO expects to evaluate anomalous   
   phenomena across all domains. And that means that individuals who   
   operate in those other domains are also free now to file UAP reports.   
   That's something Kirkpatrick said the AARO has been working with the   
   services on.   
      
   "[We're] working with the military departments and the Joint Staff to   
   normalize, integrate and expand UAP reporting beyond the aviators - to   
   all service members - including mariners, submariners and our space   
   Guardians," Kirkpatrick said.   
      
   Also, an effort of AARO, Kirkpatrick said, is working with both the   
   military services and the intelligence community to ensure that the   
   activities of the US govt itself don't end up as reports of a UAP.   
      
   "We are setting up very clear mechanisms with our `blue' programs,   
   both our DOD and IC programs, to deconflict any observations that come   
   in with `blue' activity to ensure that we weed those out and we can   
   identify those fairly early on," Kirkpatrick said.   
      
   AARO is a new office within the DOD, and Kirkpatrick said that from   
   the start, the office is working hard to establish a standard of   
   operations that is both thorough and rigorous.   
      
   "We apply the highest analytic and scientific standards," he said. "We   
   execute our mission objectively and without sensationalism and we do   
   not rush to conclusions."   
      
   The work of the AARO is not done in a vacuum. Instead, it's obligated   
   to keep Congress abreast of what it is doing with regular reports,   
   said Ronald Moultrie, under secretary of defense for intelligence and   
   security.   
      
   "Since establishment, AARO has been providing regular updates to   
   Congress on its efforts to document, analyze and resolve reports of   
   anomalous phenomena," Moultrie said. "The department has already   
   submitted its first congressionally-mandated quarterly reports on UAP   
   in August and Nov, and we will continue to provide quarterly updates."   
      
   Congress is not alone in wanting to know more about unidentified   
   anomalous phenomena. The American public does as well, said   
   Moultrie. And AARO and the department are committed to transparency there.   
      
   "The department takes public interest in UAPs seriously," Moultrie   
   said. "As I said to congressional leaders in May, we are fully   
   committed to the principles of openness and accountability to the   
   American people. We are committed to sharing as much detail with the   
   public as we can."   
      
   --   
   "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.   
   Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."   
   - Marie Curie   
      
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