The Sky Canada preview report

Recently, in mid-January 2025, the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada released a 16-page report titled "Management of Public Reporting of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Canada: A Preview of the upcoming Sky Canada Report."

Sky-Canada-Preview-January-2025.pdf

Commencing with "A Message from the Chief Science Advisor of Canada,' where Mona Nemer, inter alia, writes:

"...this report focuses on the services available to the Canadian public for reporting UAPs, and not the UAPs themselves; understanding this distinction is critical to reading the report..."

The Sky Canada project team went about its business by gathering information from:

 "...federal departments and agencies, stakeholders, experts and other organizations, on how UAP observation reports by the public are handled in Canada."

Publicly available records, archives and historical practices were examined. "We reviewed he approaches taken by a few other countries, mostly G7 nations and members of the Five Eyes." Additionally, a company named Earnscliffe Strategies conducting an online survey of Canadians re their views on UAP.

Key findings

1. Canadian federal departments and agencies do receive UAP reports, with few investigating the nature of the sightings unless their specific mission has hem do so, e.g. Transport Canada for aviation incidents. 

2. The project identified a number of "gaps."

a. Lack of a cohesive and standardised systems for reporting and follow up.

b. Absence of public engagement.

c. Limited analysis of UAP reports.

d. Insufficient scientific involvement.

e. Modest efforts to enhance scientific literacy involving planetary sciences.

3. The project examined the management of UAP reports in the USA, France and Chile.

Recommendations

Reports and data oversight

1. "...identify a lead: A Federal Government department of agency responsible for managing public UAP data, should be identified...The Canadian Space Agency could be considered for such a role."

2. "Establish a dedicated service...collect testimony, investigate cases and post its analysis publicly."

3. "Enhance reporting capacity in civil aviation." Transport Canada should encourage members of the aviation community to report sightings. 

Communications

4. "Support public dialogue" via a proactive strategy, using such services as public libraries, science centres and museums.

5. "Promote intra-government collaboration" via an internal directive.

6. "Improve media relations."

7. "Promote application of up-to-date evidence to effectively address misinformation and disinformation."

Research

8. "Facilitate open access and open data."

9. "Conduct surveys" to gauge the perception of the Canadian public about UAP.

10. Provide tools for data collection" via smartphone apps and interactive platforms.

11. "Build on Canada's strengths in astronomy and aerospace research."

12. "Information sharing with international entities."

13. "Cooperation in research and communications" with international partners.

Conclusion

"A more structured approach would enhance transparency and combat disinformation...position Canada alongside some of its allies as leaders in the global efforts to elucidate the nature of UAPs...potentially reveal valuable insight into aerial phenomena that are currently unexplained."

Six "White Papers" and a "Policy Brief"

 White Papers

One of the aims of the SOL Foundation for Advanced Scientific and Policy Research is to produce a series of "White Papers." A "White paper" is:

"...a research based report which offers a formal description of a complex topic and presents the point of view of the author or body represented by the author."

To date, the SOL Foundation has produced a series of six "White Papers." These are:

Volume 1 Number 1. "Beneath the Surface: We may learn More about UAP by Looking in the Ocean." Author: Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet (Retd.) March 2024. 

Volume 1 Number 2. "UAP in Crowded Skies: Atmospheric and Orbital Threat Reduction in an Age of Geopolitical Uncertainty." Author: The SOL Foundation, March 2024.

Volume 1 Number 3. "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" Policy Implications for the Government of the United Kingdom." Author: Helen McCaw. May 2024.

Volume 1 Number 4. "Anomalous Health Threats: Health Security Considerations for UAP." Author: The SOL Foundation. July 2024. 

Volume 1 Number 5. "NHI, UAP and the Catholic Faith: How will the Church Respond?" Author: Paul Thigpen. July 2024.

Volume 1 Number 6. "The Prospect of Executive Branch Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Secrecy: The Ham to Congress and Potential Remedies." Author: Peter Skafish. November 2024. 

Peter Skafish People – The Sol Foundation

Policy Brief

The UAP Disclosure Fund's website states that it is:

 "...a non partisan nonprofit supporting UAP legislation, protecting whistleblowers, and raising public awareness for greater transparency."

One of its aims is listed as "Advocacy for policy change." Elsewhere on the website is found "Policy. Expert analysis and recommendations for advancing US policy on UAP and emerging technologies."

On 9 January 2025 the Fund released its first "Policy Brief" titled "Prioritizing Emerging All-Domain Technologies." It is authored by Luis Elizondo. The Policy Brief Summary reads as follows:

"This policy brief highlights one of the most pressing challenges to American and global security. Emerging All-Domain Technologies (EADT). EADT include Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS, also known as drones), Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP, formerly known as UFOs), and certain other advanced systems operating across the air, space and sea domains that are capable of intelligence surveillance, reconnaissance and kinetic strikes.

Recent events like the drone incursions in New Jersey and the Chinese spy balloon incidents underscore a critical gap; The U.S. woefully lacks a whole-of-government solution to EADT. To solve this problem; this policy brief recommends that the President empower a White House Sebor Advisor, or "Czar," within the National Security Council to (1) coordinate the U.S. Governments EADT response, (2) formulate policy; (3) and conduct domestic and international outreach."

In summary, both the series of White Papers, and what is intended to be a series of Policy Briefs, aim to stimulate public awareness and discussion on the subject of UAP. In addition, they seek to make recommendations to those in the appropriate areas of the U.S. governments, on what the authors see as areas of policy need or change.  

National Archives of Australia and the New Year

National Archives of Australia

For over 15 years now, on the first of January each year, I have checked the website of the National Archives of Australia (NAA,) for newly released Australian government files relating to UAP.

This annual activity followed the years between 2003 and 2008, when the Adelaide based Australian UFO Research Association (AURA) conducted its major exploration of Australian government UAP files. During those years, a large number of UAP related files were located via the NAA's search engine. Once a file was located, a digitized copy was ordered, paid for out of the pockets of AURA members. In those days each file cost between $25-50 to have digitized, as opposed to around $200 for a large file, today. 

Once AURA's work was completed as much as possible, annual inspections of the NAA website by myself and Melbourne based researcher Paul Dean, continued to locate a small number of UAP related files, each year, up to the year 2022. A list of files located up until May 2016, may be found here.  A reading of the files listed, reveals that there were an unexpectedly large number of different Australian government departments that kept UAP related files. A sense of what was on these collective files may be read here.  

An NAA document referring to the 1978 Valentich incident

The 2025 NAA search using various keywords

Were any newly released Australian government UAP files located in my 2025 annual search? Unfortunately, not. However, there still remain a few files which I located in previous years, and which I had the NAA examine and open them but have not had them digitized due to their cost. These are:

1. File series A9755, control symbol 9, title "[RAAF No. 92 Wing, Headquarters, Edinburgh, South Australia] Unusual Aerial Sightings [UAS] [UFO - Unidentified Flying Objects]" Date range is 1992-1994. Item ID 3533451. Held in Canberra. Formerly, a file of the Department of Defence.

2. File series A9755, control symbol 23, title "[RAAF Headquarters No. 82 Bomber Wing, Amberley, Queensland] Unusual Aerial Sightings. [UAS] [UFO - Unidentified Flying Objects]" Date range 1992-1994. ID 3533584. Held in Canberra. Formerly, a file of the Department of Defence. 

3. File series B610, control symbol 315/1/425 Part 1. Title "Airways Operations - Miscellaneous Rockets, Missiles, Space Craft and UFOs. AO Aspects." Date range 1977-1985. ID 24947317. Held in Canberra. Formerly a file of the Department of Civil Aviation.

4. File series P2864, control symbol Maatsuyker 1973. Title "Navigational Aid Station [Light station] Log book - Maatsuyker Island [UFO sighting]" Date range 1973-1974. ID 33094195. Held in Hobart. Formerly a file of the Australian Maritime Authority. 

5. File series C1342m control symbol 5/2/AIR Part 8. Title "Unusual Aerial Sightings [RAAF Williamtown] Correspondence Box 3." Date range 1983-1984. ID 24102990. Held in Sydney. Formerly a file of the Department of Defence. 

Two other 'Open" files waiting for someone to pay to have them digitized, relate to the possibility that flight 292 of the joint Australian/USA HIBAL radioactivity sampling mission, might be the explanation for the mass sighting at a school in Westall, Melbourne on 6 April 1966, are:

File series B595, control symbols 99/66/105 Parts 1 and 2. Title "US Project 'ash can' 'hibal' for sampling radioactive content of stratosphere." Both files have a date range of 1953-1977 and both are held in Canberra. ID are 23801655 and 23801656. Formerly files of the Department of Civil Aviation.

The current situation

The current attitude of the Australian Department of Defence is that they have no interest in the subject of UAP, hence they are creating no new files on the subject. Therefore, it is doubtful that any more Australian government UAP related files will be located in the NAA. So, it is likely that we have found all such files in the NAA. However, it should be noted that from time to time, the AURA project did come across a few files that were not in the NAA as they should be but were still held by Departments themselves. So, it is possible that diligent research utlising the Freedom of Information Act might just turn up a few more files. The trouble with this is that one would have to submit FOI requests to all current Australian government departments, a daunting task. 

Another 1990 observation of a "Calvine" like shaped object

Calvine

At about 9p.m. on 4 August 1990, near a locality named Calvine, in Scotland, two men are reported to have taken a series of photographs of an unusual hovering object, which after several minutes, took off vertically at speed. Much discussion and debate about the incident has occurred since then.

Logan

However, there is a lesser known 1990 sighting of a diamond shaped object, from a British Royal Air Force Airborne Warning and Control System (AWAC) aircraft, flying between Iceland and Scotland. Details of this other 1990 sighting became available during a very recent (2025) YouTube interview with host Harald Havas.

Courtesy Google maps

One of the witnesses to this other 1990 sighting was Lenval Logan. Logan, originally from the United Kingdom; in 1990 was in the United States Air Force and based in Germany. After his 20 plus year's service in the USAF, he spent 15 years as a U.S. government contractor. Included in this were several years as part of the U.S. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF.) Recently, he developed an app, named Phenom, to collect UAP data.

In order to present the other 1990 sighting details in Logan's own words, I have taken the liberty of  making a transcript of part of Logan's YouTube interview with Havas.

Transcript

"Stationed in Germany...we had the British AWACs show up and... why don't you come fly with us? And I did...I ran into my boss and said do you have a problem with it...go for it...this is in January 1990. So, I had just finished the Intel school.

We used to have a program in Europe called REFORGER which stood for Return of Forces to Germany. It was an annual thing...I happened to be on one of the last flights...we were on a flight coming down just past Iceland heading for Scotland to go to Rhein-Main at Frankfurt the Air Force base that was up there. I had what was called a Philadelphian cheesesteak {sandwich-KB}...the Sun was just coming up, and I/m bored, looking out the window, chewing on my cheese steak, and all of a sudden there's this diamond, arrowhead, looking thing, going in and out, zipping around and then going in the clouds. But when it would go into a cloud, it would change vectors inside the cloud and pop back out again.

And I was, like, 'Hey look at that' And then there was another guy who was eating a sandwich too. He was standing up. The two of us were sitting in a chair. We are all trying to watch this thing.

And you could see it was turning from, like, black and whiteish. I'm not sure if it was because there was water was on it, and there was a shine. But it was going in and out. We were like, 'What is that?' All of a sudden, I had this thought, 'this is probably one of our projects and I'm going to be doing the coolest job ever, so may be shut my mouth and just kind of ignore it.' And finally, it just kind of disappeared, it went into a cloud or something and I got to my unit. I waited for a while, you know, get comfortable, and then I went, we have what you call a weapons and tactics officer. I talked to him and said 'Hey, so what's it out there that's doing all this weird stuff?' He looked at me like I was an idiot. 'I don't know of anything that does that.' 

Now, this is at the end of the Belgian wave, and I didn't know anything about the Belgium wave. So, it didn't connect. Went to Desert Storm, came back from Desert Storm. So, when that British AWACs land and they actually go on board, I figured yes, that would be great, learn something new. Then while I was up there, I was, like, so, you guys see everything in the skies. They're like, 'Yeh.' I was like I have a question to ask you guys. 'What's out there that does the ziggy zaggy thing?' You know, real fast? 'They looked at me like I was an idiot. Finally, the guy says 'Show him.' 

And it was a map of Europe, and you could see all the aircraft flying around... All of a sudden, saw something go passing through real fast and I was like 'Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh who's that?' ....It was like a video, like a recording, like a screenshot...I was like 'that guy.' And they were like "You know." I was like, 'No I don't know.' They were like 'Logan, come on you know.' 'Look, I don't know.' They said that is your SR-71 from back in the day. That was like 'That's not him.'

I was like, the one that does the ziggy zaggy thing. And they said Ok and he looked at his friend again and he goes 'Show him the other one.' And they showed me, again the same area, slightly different but same area and there's this thing. Every sweep of the radar he was somewhere else. And I was so excited I started cursing. I was like that that there. That guy, who is that? And they're like 'You know Logan." And I said 'Let's not go through that again. Who's that?' 'Come on Logan.' And they actually thought I knew; and I was like, I said 'I don't know who that is.' And I told them what I saw. Gave them more descriptive indication.

They said 'Logan we have been trying for ever, whenever we see this guy, to reach out to him on the radio. They never respond. We have vectored aircraft towards them, and they zip away. It was almost like, every sweep of the radar he was in a different position. I was like, 'so you mean you guys don't know who he is?' They're like "no, they said, we just figured it was you Americans playing trick on us.' I was like, I said,' hold on a second. So, you know that this guy exists. Does your squadron know?' 'Yes, it's a joke, it's a joke in the squadron because everybody knows.' I was like 'Nobody doing anything about it? 'I said we got to protect the airspace all the other stuff...how are we supposed to protect from someone who won't answer, and we can't even get close to them?' ...after that mission was over, I thanked them and I said it was one of those things that stayed in the back of my head, that if I ever get the chance to know anything more about this, I want to look into it...

The host then asked did they see this on multiple times? Logan responded, multiple times on their radar screen. Got to the point that they started to ignore it because they didn't know what else to do. The host then refers to a photograph the Calvine object, and asks if Logan saw it in one position? Logan said that 'I saw it from the front. From the side. I saw it from the back. but it was never really like at an angle or anything like that. So, when James asked me when was this? I said January 1990. He said later on there is something I want to show you. He sent it to me, I said oh crap where did you find this, and I said this is the exact same thing I saw. And he was just as surprised as I was, because he said this is the Calvine UFO video, picture and I was like, tell me more about it. After that, I went and read up and figured out what he was talking about. I was like, James, I saw this. This is the one that I saw."

Other information 

Other pieces of information which came out.  He watched his January 1990 object for something like five minutes. He didn't see anything escorting it. He doesn't know what altitude his AWACs plane was at but guessed at 30.000 feet. The object was below the AWACS aircraft but not at a steep angle. Didn't have a scale of size so couldn't estimate the object's size. Description like 'It looked like every angle, every corner, had the diamond shape...it wasn't moving conventionally.'

Senator Whish-Wilson asks another UAP related question of the Australian Department of Defence

Questions

For several years now, Australian Parliamentary Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has been asking UAP related questions in the setting of the Senate Estimates Committee. Melbourne researcher Grant Lavac has been supporting Senator Whish-Wilson in the background, providing suggested questions to ask the Australian Department of Defence. 

Senator Peter Whish-Wilson – Parliament of Australia

On 27 November 2024, Senator Whish-Wilson, asked his latest questions (reference 844) at the 2024-2025 Supplementary Budget Estimates Committee, and later received a response from the Australian Department of Defence.  The questions posed were:

1. Given that the "Defence Science and Technology Group works with Allied Scientists" and "collaborates closely with the USAF Air Force Research Laboratory through the Air Senior National Representative Forum" (refer page 2 of Defence FOI 1009/23/24), to what extent have Defence Science and Technology Group personnel engaged with the USAF Air Force Research Laboratory to date on the UAP topic?

2. Given that Chief Defence Scientist, Professor Tanya Monro leads on Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) activities relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and that DSTG 'provides support to the ADF to identify and classify objects detected by sensing technology and has projects that are aligned with the requirement of the Defence Strategic Review to improve sensing and intelligence gathering in support of Australia's interest", (refer page 2 of Defence FOI 1009/23/24) have any DSTG personnel been briefed on AARO's GREMLIN sensor system, and would such a system be of benefit to improving sensing and intelligence gathering in support of Australia's interest?

Response

The Australian Department of Defence's response was:

The Defence Science and Technology Group (DTSG) are not performing UAP research, and therefore not collaborating with the US Department of Defense on this topic. DSTG have not been briefed on the alleged AARO Gremlin system. 

Comments:

1. The AARO Gremlin sensor suite is not "alleged." AARO itself has advised that the Gremlin system was deployed in March 2024 and is ready for further deployment. 

2. The statement that "The Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) are not performing UAP research" doesn't rule out that someone in DSTG has a "watching brief" on the topic. Indeed for the DOD to answer the question about the GREMLIN system, means that someone, somewhere in the DOD had to have at least "Googled" AARO and GREMLIN to find out what on Earth Senator Whish-Wilson was asking about.

3. ARRO held a UAP briefing for Five Eyes Intelligence partners in May 2023. In response to a question on notice from Senator Whish-Wilson the Australian Government responded that:

 "Yes. A Defence representative at the Australian Embassy in Washington attended."

Efforts to learn precisely who attended and from which area of the Australian Department of Defence have so far been unsuccessful.  Chief suspect given that Five Eyes is an intelligence sharing network, is that the DOD area concerned is the Defence Intelligence Organisation, which is exempt for requests under the Australian FOI Act. 

4. A big thank you to Senator Whish-Wilson and to Grant Lavac for their tireless work on holding the Australian Department of Defence to account, on the topic of UAP. 

Another U.S. National Science Foundation gathering, partly related to UAP

Between 15 and 17 May 2024, a workshop titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP): A Dialogue on Science, Public Engagement and Communication" organised by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), was held at an undisclosed location in Virginia, U.S.A. There was no pre-event media publicity, and the event failed to make the NSF website. Later, an executive summary of the event was published. 

According to an article on the The Debrief website dated 18 December 2024, by Chrissy Newton, the NSF convened an online meeting on 4 November 2024, partly concerning UAP. A search of the NSF website failed to locate details of the meeting, suggesting that the NSF did not want to draw media attention to the event. Individuals discussing UAP were Ryan Graves, Hal Puthoff, Jay Stratton, and Travis Taylor. Hopefully, further details of the contents of the UAP related segments will be published. 

Update: 20 December 2024

While browsing "X" (Former Twitter) I came across one Reed Summers who wrote, on 19 December 2024:

"Attended this very interesting and informative National Science Foundation (NSF) event yesterday featuring presentations from industry, policy and science leadership in Space Technology, Edge Science and UAP. Among other things, it was eye-opening to see all the professional and institutional interest and intent to seriously study and investigate the UAP issue."

This Tweet by Summers lead me to another individual Dyan Finkhousen whose post on "X" spoke of The Ecosystemic Futures Podcast, season 6, new episode dated 13 November 2024 titled "Beyond Paradigms" Ultra-Advanced Technologies, Anomalous Phenomena, and the Future of Innovation." Guest speakers Hal Puthoff, Larry Forsley, Ryan Graves and Travis Taylor.

The 19th November 2024 US Congressional Senate UAP Hearing

Hearing

On the 19th of November 2024, the Emerging Trends and Capabilities Sub-committee of the U.S. Congress' Senate Armed Services Committee, held a hearing on UAP. Announcing this, "Closed hearing to examine the activities of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, to be immediately followed by an open session." The sole witness called before the hearing was Dr. Jon Kosloski who has been the Director of AARO since August 2024. The chair for the hearing was Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. 

The video of the 34-minute-long open session may be accessed here.  Dr. Kosloski presented an opening statement, the text of which is as follows:

Dr. Jon T. Kosloski > U.S. Department of Defense > Biography

Opening statement

"Statement for the Record Dr. Jon Kosloski, Director, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities November 19, 2024.

 Thank you, Chairwoman Gillibrand, Ranking Member Ernst, and distinguished members of the subcommittee. It is a pleasure to be here on behalf of the Department of Defense as the new Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. I appreciate the opportunity to provide a status update on AARO’s work and respond to your questions about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

On behalf of the department and the entire AARO team, I want to say how grateful we are to Congress for its continued support. Unidentified objects in any domain may pose a threat to U.S. safety and security. Reports of UAP activity, particularly near national security sites, must be treated seriously and investigated with scientific rigor by the U.S. Government.

By way of introduction, I am Jon Kosloski. I'm a researcher at my core, with an academic background in mathematics, physics, and engineering. I have spent most of my career at the National Security Agency leading advanced research in the areas of optics, computing, and crypto mathematics. I am drawn to tough scientific problems, which is what brought me to AARO and the UAP mission.

Since I arrived in August 2024, I have been impressed by the breadth and depth of my team’s experience and the framework it has established to rigorously analyze UAP reports. AARO has taken meaningful steps to improve data collection and retention, bolster sensor development, effectively triage UAP reports, and remove the stigma of reporting a UAP event. Last year, AARO worked with DoD’s Joint Staff to issue guidance to defense personnel worldwide on how to report UAP observations and is working with the Military Services to ensure the implementation of this guidance. Additionally, AARO launched a public website that features UAP imagery, case resolutions, material analysis, archival records, and more. These are only a few examples of AARO’s recent progress – and we’re just getting started.

To date, AARO has over 1,600 UAP reports in its holdings from across the U.S. government. I’ll share a slide in just a few minutes of updated UAP analytic trends. You’ll see that many reports resolve to commonplace objects like birds, balloons, and unmanned systems, while others lack sufficient data for comprehensive analysis. Only a very small percentage of reports AARO receives are potentially anomalous; these are the cases that require significant time, resources, and a focused scientific inquiry by AARO and its wide network of partners.

It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology. To accomplish AARO’s national security mission, I have set three priorities for the Office: building strong partnerships, promoting transparency, and scaling up the work of the office. First, AARO cannot do its work alone. Building partnerships across government, academia, industry, and with the public, is essential to the success of the office. Strong cooperation with the Military Services is particularly important. We rely on their support to implement our reporting guidance and to amplify the message that there should be zero stigma associated with UAP reporting. We also rely on partnerships with the National Labs, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, FBI, DHS, and NASA, all of which play a role in the whole-of-government effort to address UAP. Just as important, I recognize the talent and expertise that reside outside of government. 

AARO will continue to explore new ways to partner with the academic and scientific communities to investigate its most complex UAP cases. Transparency is a related priority for AARO. Our ability to collaborate with key partners, including the scientific community and the public, relies on information sharing, to include downgrading and declassifying UAP-related information. In some cases, it may be unclear to the public why DoD classified a piece of information in the first place. Why are photos of seemingly benign objects, such as balloons, classified? It is often the case that an object or phenomenon itself is not a security concern, but the location, source, or method used to capture it is still sensitive.

Many cases are difficult to quickly release to the public but are reported to the appropriate committees in Congress that are authorized by the law or House and Senate leadership to receive the information. It is important to note that AARO does not unilaterally declassify information. Instead, we work with the originator of a classified record to ensure that declassifying that record does not inadvertently harm national security. This can take time. Nonetheless, the Department is committed to declassifying and publicly sharing more information on UAP, while protecting sensitive sources and methods.

I’ll be sharing some newly declassified imagery in just a few minutes. AARO is also working closely with the National Archives and Records Administration to make UAP-related documents publicly available in a digitized collection. In addition, AARO continues to review the U.S. historical record relating to UAP. We welcome any former or current government civilian, contractor, or military service member with relevant information to reach out to us at www.aaro.mil. My final priority is scaling AARO’s work to match its mission. AARO needs to bolster the quantity, quality, and diversity of data that it acquires and examines. This means tapping into existing data sources within the interagency while deploying AARO’s own organic sensor capabilities. To the extent that UAP result from domain awareness gaps, more and better data will help us fill those gaps and help us understand what is being encountered. In closing, AARO is committed to the highest standards of scientific integrity. We will not foreclose on any explanation for UAP prematurely. 

We will continue to follow the science and data wherever they lead. We will continue to have open and frank dialogue with Congress in settings like these and also in classified briefings. We will continue to keep you fully and currently informed of all UAP information, active or historical. And finally, we will continue to share as much information as possible at the unclassified level to inform the public of AARO’s activities and its findings. Thank you for your continued support, and I look forward to your questions."

Presentation

Following his opening statement, Dr. Kosloski gave a slide presentation. This included three case studies. 

1. The 26 April 2013 Puerto Rico object. AARO's analysis concluded that there were two objects in close proximity; the perception of high speed was due to parallax; they travelled at wind speed over land in a straight line, never entering the water. The objects did not exhibit any anomalous speeds or flight characteristics. 

2. The January 2015 "Go Fast" Object. AARO's analysis concluded that the UAP was at 13,000 feet and not near the sea surface. That it was travelling at around 39 knots in speed and travelled in a relatively straight line slightly rising trajectory with a slow curving descent near the end. It did not exhibit any anomalous speeds or flight characteristics. 

3. A newly released video taken in 2018 by a UAV of an eruption of Italy's Mt. Etna. AARO's conclusion was that the object in question was a balloon travelling with the wind. 

Q and A

The session was then opened up for questions directed to Dr. Kosloski. These questions and responses may be viewed on the video of the open part of the session.