U.S. Department of Defense Launches All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Website

If you join NASA you can become the "Planetary Protection Officer", which would be the first time I'd actually enjoy handing out business cards to people.

(The job is much more mundane than the title sounds.)

mperham• 3 years ago

points to the boardrooms of Shell, Exxon and BP "That way, Officer!"

bewaretheirs• 3 years ago

There's also the International Earth Rotation Service, but they're depending on inertia to get their job done.

(Their actual job is to coordinate very precise measurements of the earth's rotation to determine how its rotation is shifting relative to atomic time).

ilaksh3• 3 years ago

If you are interested in this stuff, you may also want to check out an Apple TV show called Invasion. Season 2 just started. I think overall the beginning episodes were better though. It was really engaging.

pests• 3 years ago

Enjoyed it at first. The dialog and situations have gotten very unreal though.

ilaksh3• 3 years ago

Yeah it started out looking like hard science fiction but then got into the telepathy stuff.

alphabetting• 3 years ago

The referenced website here: https://www.aaro.mil/

paulgb• 3 years ago

Be sure to expand the “Official UAP Videos” section, that's the most interesting part of the page but it's folded by default.

soulofmischief• 3 years ago

Is https://www.web.dma.mil/ hiring? This site has so many basic administrative issues, starting with a lack of www redirection.

oldstrangers2• 3 years ago

Oh cool they made it on Geocities.

zoklet-enjoyer• 3 years ago

Nothing wrong with Geocities

civilitty• 3 years ago

A mechanism for members of the general public to make reports will be announced in coming months.

Anyone know who's hiring for this program and whether I can be an investigator? I'd love to be the one who pours through piles of looney reports of UFO activity, looking for any sign of intelligence.

6uhrmittag• 3 years ago

The "NAVAIR - FOIA" videos are blocked for German IPs:(

swagmoose• 3 years ago

My mind instantly went to the show "Ghosted" where Craig Robinson and Adam Scott worked at "The Bureau Underground" investigating unexplained phenomena (ghosts, aliens, cryptids).

Got a good laugh out of the line "committed to transparency". I'd hope so but I'm not counting on it

peterleiser• 3 years ago

"... will launch a secure reporting tool on the website to enable current and former U.S. government employees, service members, or contractors with direct knowledge of U.S. government programs or activities to contact AARO directly to make a report."

Legit whistle blower site, or Honeypot?

candiddevmike• 3 years ago

Operated by the Federal Bureau of Control

bhouston2• 3 years ago

What are people's top guesses that this turns out to be?

My guesses are:

(1) Chinese surveillance balloons (as was in the news a lot earlier this year)

(2) Chinese military/surveillance UAVs

0xDEF• 3 years ago

The US has 46 million people living in rural areas with little light pollution. Europe is more densely populated than the US and urban light pollution is probably the only type of pollution that is significantly worse here than in the US.

There are of course also hundreds of millions of people in the developing world living in rural areas but they likely have other life priorities than noticing lights in the sky.

My point is that whatever it is it is probably a global phenomenon but only Americans are both geographically and culturally inclined (Hollywood) to notice and report it.

seiferteric• 3 years ago

The "why only America" thing seems to come up in every discussion, yet if you pay attention to this stuff at all, you see videos and reports from all over the world, so I really don't understand where it is coming from.

startrekmegafan• 3 years ago

It’s 99% legitimate counterintelligence programs propelled by con-men and neo-religions. The US Government has known since at least 1976 that foreign spies (then Soviets) viewed UFO believers as mentally weak and thus targeted them to exfiltrate classified information.

There are classified operations to test potential targets. And open intelligence networks to organize and connect disparate groups.

Different parts of the government benefit in various ways. It will never be explained because the government can’t stop its employees from believing in supernatural ideas.

If there is an illegal disinformation program or psyop, it is unconnected to the government and conducted over multi-decades. It will be extremely hard to prove until it becomes operational (ie in a hot war with China).

In the meantime, the og UFO promoters are aging and they have created a new religion to explain the mysteries of life and death. These are the same people behind Lue Elizondo and David Grusch.

integricho4• 3 years ago

I think skepticism can go to the same kinds of extremes as believing. While a significant percentage of reports is surely a mixture of crackpots / people with unknown agendas, I find it hard to discard just about everything on one of these basis.

marktangotango• 3 years ago

Jeremy Corbin and George Knapp were on Rogan recently talking about Grusch and what was said seemed like some really poor decision making on Grusch part, not least of which was Grusch decision talking to those guys. In that way, what you say is believable. BUT it does not explain the credible eye witness and sensor data around sightings such as tic tac and others. So, in my view the reality must be somewhere in between. Whether that's extraterrestrial or not, hanlons razor suggest not.

ilaksh3• 3 years ago

It's a long running and well-known cover story for secret aircraft development. Which is why it is so popular near the base where they do so much experimental aircraft testing.

EMCymatics• 3 years ago

As a nation we should be vigilant that we have the best and the next best tech. Acting on the implicit faith that our nation monopolizes this niche in all federally funded defense companies is maybe misplaced particularly when we begin to lose global trade power and comparative wealth.

oldstrangers2• 3 years ago

The easiest way to know it's not a foreign adversary is the fact that the US isn't claiming it to be. If it were actually foreign tech, the US would be beating the war drums 24/7 and using this opportunity to double their defense budget.

ethbr14• 3 years ago

I imagine we'd all be surprised by how much grey skullduggery we don't hear about, from any government.

E.g. surveillance high-altitude balloons and HALE UAVs over the past decades

jazzyjackson• 3 years ago

hallucinations bourne by sensor fusion

psyops to study online group dynamics

wfvr2• 3 years ago

Only one of the four objects shot down earlier this year was a Chinese surveillance balloon, and that was also the only one we got pictures of. The other three were described as "objects". One of them was reported to have been "cigar-shaped", and other to have messed with one of the jet's electronics.

Regarding the object shot down over Canada:

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first announced Saturday's shootdown over the northern Yukon territory, saying Canadian forces would recover and analyze the wreckage. (...) Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand declined to speculate about the origin of the object, which she said was cylindrical in shape. (...) "The leaders discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin," it said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-still-gives-no-details-a...

Officially, they gave up the search after a few days.

And as for the object shot down over Alaska:

But the pilots later gave differing reports of what they observed, the source briefed on the intelligence said. (...) Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes, but not all pilots reported experiencing that. (...) Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet. (...) It’s unclear what the object looks like, or where it came from. On Friday, Ryder said it was traveling north east across Alaska. He declined to provide a physical characterization, only saying that it was “about the size of a small car” and “not similar in size or shape” to the Chinese surveillance balloon that was downed off the coast of South Carolina on February 4. (...) recovery teams are now collecting the debris that is sitting on top of ice in US territorial waters.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-obj...

This one was also, officially, not recovered, for some reason.

If these are not bona fide UFO's, I don't know what to call them. What I know is that no government official called them "balloons", nor were they associated with China, nor did we get to see a single photo of them.

bhouston2• 3 years ago

Interesting, I didn't realize there isn't photos or mention of recovery results. Damn, it. Now I am super curious.

xigency• 3 years ago

One of the objects downed by the US Air Force using a $400,000 missile last weekend may have been a $12 balloon released by a hobby group, a report said.
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade told Aviation Week that one of its balloons had gone missing, and that it may have been among the objects shot down by the US Air Force using a Sidewinder heat-seeking missile.
The club said that it had been tracking the course of its silver pico balloon. Its last reported position was on February 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska.
Pico ballooning involves flying high altitude balloons that resemble party balloons, then tracking their flight path as they travel across the globe. A pico balloon can cost anywhere from $12 to $180, according to reports.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/ufo-downed-400000-missile-ai...

Most UFO sightings are completely banal things that are not recognized at the time, like camera artifacts and (unironically) atmospheric phenomena.

coding123• 3 years ago

Project bluebook 2023 version

euroderf• 3 years ago

Why blame Canada or Obama when you can blame swamp gas.

justin66• 3 years ago

Anomalies like civilian collateral damage, friendly fire, excessive costs, or environmental problems surrounding military bases?

No, some shit about UFOs. "Hey look, something shiny!"

uhtred• 3 years ago

I thought the Grusch news a few months back was going to be... something, but it hasn't been.

All we get (if you peruse the UFOs subreddit at least, or twitter) is people like george knapf and the other dude that makes the documentaries like skyranch, everyday saying stuff like "My source in DOD says BIG intel drop coming VERY SOON.". They literally say that stuff everyday. It's getting to QAnon levels of ridiculous.

BTW though I want to believe. LLAP.

ethbr14• 3 years ago

I've always loved that phrase, as it unpacks so many ways. Have the original version of the poster in my office.

   I want to believe

As in, you currently do not, but you desire to, but you need something to convince you, and the current evidence you've seen is unconvincing, which means you have standards of proof.

It doesn't get more honestly scientific than that.

jncfhnb4• 3 years ago

It doesn't get more honestly scientific than that.

A lot of people “want to believe” their ideas are correct, and end up smudging some data points to justify their biases.

readyplayernull• 3 years ago

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) means (A) airborne objects that are not immediately identifiable; (B) transmedium objects or devices; (C) and submerged objects or devices that are not immediately identifiable

thamer• 3 years ago

How is the GIMBAL video still listed as "unresolved"? Mick West's analysis seems to explain it pretty thoroughly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

At the very least I would have hoped that there would be more than just a link to the video, and a section saying that some convincing explanations have been proposed. Right now it looks like on the first day it was released, as if this case was still just as mysterious.

CommitSyn• 3 years ago

While Mick West thinks it was Seagulls from the 1 video, the DoD has all sensor recordings and likely more videos, which were not leaked, and likely do the heavy lifting to disprove the seagull theory.

jncfhnb4• 3 years ago

The gimbal one is almost insulting and shows the level of interest the military has on engaging with people on such things. The video is named after the explanation for it but they didn’t bother to acknowledge that.

If you want to be a conspiracy theorist, do consider the level of information and effort the org appears to be putting in.

U.S. Department of Defense Launches All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Website

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