AARO — All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
Established July 2022
ACTIVE — COUNTERINTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE
Pentagon / OUSDI&S
AARO is the Pentagon’s official UAP investigation office, publicly positioned as the government’s good-faith effort to investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena. The architectural reality is different: AARO was built inside the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSDI&S) — the same body responsible for protecting Special Access Programmes from exposure, counterintelligence, and insider threat policy. Multiple whistleblowers have refused to engage with it. Its first director was selected by an official sources describe as ‘long hostile to UAP.’
Origin & Mandate
AARO replaced the UAPTF (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force) and its predecessor AOIMSG. AOIMSG was created within OUSDI&S — placing the UAP investigation function inside the same bureaucratic structure responsible for protecting classified programmes from Congressional exposure. AARO inherited this architecture. DOD directives confirm OUSDI&S ‘establishes, develops, and coordinates DoD SAP security policy and provides security oversight’ for the same programmes that UAP whistleblowers allege contain recovered materials.
Structure & Personnel
First director: Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick — selected by David Taylor, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, who sources describe as ‘long hostile to UAP.’ Current director: Dr. Jon Kosloski, who has acknowledged encountering cases of ‘truly astonishing performance capabilities’ that could not be attributed to known systems. AARO received 757 UAP reports in its FY2024 annual report. Multiple whistleblowers including Grusch have publicly refused to provide classified information to AARO.
Known Operations
AARO confirmed KONA BLUE — establishing through its own historical review that government officials believed non-human biologics required classified protection. AARO’s historical report on UFO programmes (2024) was heavily criticised for errors and for conflating AATIP and AAWSAP to minimise the retrieval programme’s scope. AARO’s ‘case resolution’ pages explain away individual encounters. Its FY2022 and FY2024 annual reports acknowledge ‘true anomalies’ that cannot be attributed to known systems.
Current Status
AARO functions as what UAP Gerb’s analysis calls a ‘honeypot’ — designed to capture and neutralise whistleblowers within the counterintelligence framework rather than facilitate disclosure. Tulsi Gabbard’s ODNI Director’s Initiatives Group, which ran a parallel UAP investigation, was allegedly infiltrated by CIA elements in 2025-26 and shut down before completion. Congress has pushed for an independent review of AARO. Its credibility with the UAP disclosure community is effectively zero.
Key Personnel
▶Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick — First director (resigned Dec 2023)
▶Dr. Jon Kosloski — Current director
▶David Taylor — Under Sec. for Intel who selected Kirkpatrick
▶Tim Phillips — Former director; confirmed ‘truly astonishing’ cases
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