Questions for AARO
I received a FOIA reply regarding
#UAP cases submitted to AARO by the FAA. I have looked at and summarized the UAP cases provided in this article. Here is a link to the 69 reports that I received:
https://tinyurl.com/yfavkvj3
(Now some of you
@aboss please FOIA AARO for all the details that they have on the 4-5 more interesting FAA reports. Surely they investigated them and have more information than what the FAA provided.)
FAA and AARO discrepancy
In October of 2023, AARO released their 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
https://aaro.mil In that report, AARO indicated that they had received over 100 reports from the FAA. This is what prompted me in late October of 2023 to send a FOIA request to the FAA for a copy of those reports. I just received an answer this week. The FAA claims they provided me all the reports without redactions when they state, "As part of the FAA's review of the responsive records, ASH consulted with the Department of Air Force in accordance with 49 CFR 7.28; both agencies determined that no exemptions apply to the responsive records, and they are therefore being released to you in full with no redaction." The FAA only provided 69 reports although AARO claimed there were 100+. It's not possible to know which agency is correct. Heck, I'm just glad I got any reports.
Although I don't know for sure how many reports AARO received, there is one thing that I can say. I will provide you much more information than AARO provided even though none of this is classified. As I mentioned in my previous article, "Science relies on transparency, peer review, and the sharing of results to build upon existing knowledge, verify findings, and foster collaboration."
https://x.com/rpowell2u/status/1765386913588892064?s=20…
Lights and Starlink Satellites
57 of the 69 FAA reports involved seeing lights at night. Some of those 57 are sightings of Starlink satellites. Some of the comments by the pilots mention that they suspect they're looking at Starlink satellites. Of course, some of those lights are not satellites. My estimation, without thoroughly investigating each case, is that at least 44 of those 57 nighttime reports are likely Starlink. (By the way, a professor in SCU is working on a program that will help identify Starlink satellites based on how they would appear to a pilot at a given date, location, altitude, and bearing.)
So what did AARO state about those reports? Here are their exact words, "AARO has received over 100 UAP incident reports from FAA that contribute to the trend analysis of activity over the United States and its adjacent waters. Of the incident reports FAA has shared with AARO, the vast majority concern sightings of unidentified lights without specific shape at widely varying estimated altitudes." That's a correct statement. But what is surprising is that AARO never mentioned Starlink satellites as being a possible cause of those reports or that some of the pilots actually mentioned it. That's not all that AARO failed to mention.
The Interesting Reports
Some very compelling incidents were sent to AARO among the 69 FAA reports. These were reports that justified further investigation and analysis. If AARO followed up on any of these reports, they've never told the public or the scientific community. Some of these reports involve F35s, which would be expected to have radar and/or video data. These cases are also in the daytime, which indicates there should also be visual data. Here is the information provided by the FAA in each of those cases in chronological order.
Feb 15, 2023; El Paso, TX; 9:57am local time
A US Marine Corp F35 reported a UAP to Albuquerque ARTCC. The F35 was at 28,000 feet and traveling WNW when the pilot saw a UAP at the 10 o'clock position.
Feb 16, 2023; Burlington, VT; 9:45am local time
A USAF F35 reported a UAP to Boston ARTCC. The F35 was traveling at 18,000 feet to the ESE.
Feb 16, 2023; Seattle, WA; 4:35pm local time
A B739 Alaska Airlines Flight 688 reported a dark object 18 miles SSE of Seattle. The object was described as a UAS or balloon at the same altitude (10,700 feet) as the B739.
Feb 21, 2023; Kenai, AK; 4:24am local time
A DeHavilland DH8A reported to Anchorage ARTCC the presence of a stationary UAP at 16,000 feet. The civilian aircraft was headed southwest at 6000 feet. The Alaska NORAD region was notified.
Feb 27, 2023; Glendale, AZ; 12:10pm local time
A USAF F35 stationed at Luke AFB reported both a visual and instrumental sensor detection of a UAP to Albuquerque ARTCC. The F35 was at 12,500 feet and traveling to the WNW. The F35 likely detected the object on radar since the report indicated that the UAP was traveling to the NE at an altitude of 18,500 feet. (No speed for the UAP was provided, but we have no reason to suspect it was a balloon.)
Mar 8, 2023; Glendale, AZ; 5:04pm local time
Another, but different, USAF F35 from Luke AFB reported a UAP to Albuquerque ARTCC. The F35 was traveling southbound at 19,000 feet and was 65 miles to the west of Luke AFB. Oddly, the report says that the sheriff of sparsely populated La Paz County, Arizona, was notified. (Hmm, interesting.)
Apr 27, 2023; Gila Bend, AZ; 12:30pm local time
A Gulfstream G280 reported the sighting of a UAP on a flight from southern California to Houston, Texas. When 20 miles west of Gila Bend, Arizona, and eastbound at 43,000 feet, the pilot reported to Albuquerque ARTCC the sighting of a white, oval-shaped object at its 12 o'clock position.
Overview of the FAA data
The breakout of the 69 FAA reports is as follows:
Nighttime reports; 57
Daytime reports; 12
Lights; 56
Unknown shapes; 3 (daytime F35 sightings)
Missiles; 2
Dark spheres; 2
Man with a jet pack; 2
Meteor; 1
Balloon; 1
Parachute; 1
Oval-shape; 1
While we could look at the geographic locations of all the reports, it is more meaningful to look at the locations of the more interesting reports that are less likely to be explainable. Of those seven reports, three were from the Arizona area and a fourth was not far to the east near El Paso, Texas.
AARO has collected approximately 800 reports. Why can't they provide more granularity on those reports rather than only combining them into pie charts where we can't tell the difference between the significant reports and those that are insignificant?
Where's the Beef
#AARO should have collected the radar data from those four F35 UAP encounters. This would have provided the object's size, altitude, and speed. Additionally, AARO should have instructed the various military branches that when such an event occurs, the F35 pilot should request radar confirmation and tracking from all military and FAA radar systems in the area.
These four F35 encounters with UAP occurred in only 4 months. This rate of encounters is about 12 per year and that's only when the F35 notified the FAA. There are likely to be even more where the F35 notification was only to military sources. The question to AARO is whether this type of work has been done and if not, why not. By now, we should have dozens of radar recordings of encounters by our military aircraft.
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i want to know what was said here though DAG NABBIT!! there is no archive sadly and i looked, every archive has them deleted already
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Feb 25th - I asked Sean Kirkpatrick, former director of Pentagon's "UFO office", if he knew when the report would drop. Kirkpatrick responded, "I’m told before the State of the Union on March 7."
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