AARO Meets Uruguay’s Air Force On UFO Cases
- Cristina Gomez
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An American Department of War office recently sat down with a foreign military to discuss how UAP cases should be analyzed. According to the Uruguayan Air Force, its UAP investigation commission CRIDOVNI held working meetings and technical workshops with the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office better known as AARO. The stated focus was scientific methodology for case analysis, procedures for ruling out conventional explanations, and evaluating future technology and logistical support to improve Uruguay’s investigative capability.
The same release noted that progress was made toward positioning Uruguay as host for an upcoming South American regional workshop, with the goal of standardizing how countries across the region collect and analyze UAP data. That is a shift from one country receiving guidance to one country helping set a regional standard.
CRIDOVNI is not a new office. It has operated continuously under the Uruguayan Air Force since 1979, making it one of the longest running government UFO investigation bodies in the world. A preliminary information sharing agreement between Uruguay and AARO was established in 2025, and this year it moved into active implementation.
AARO stated its direction well before these meetings. In reference to a November 2024 media roundtable, AARO Director Jon Kosloski said the office planned to grow its international partnerships, beginning with traditional allies of the Department of War and the intelligence community and expanding outward from there. AARO’s own Fiscal Year 2025 annual report includes a section titled ‘Foreign Partner Engagement’, confirming the office continued exchanging information and best practices with international partners during that period. That same report logged 319 UAP reports, resolved 114 of them, and recorded a 178 percent increase in drone activity near nuclear sites.
Canada offers the contrast. In late 2022, the Office of the Chief Science Advisor, led by Mona Nemer, launched the Sky Canada Project to review how UAP reports are handled, since they were scattered across Transport Canada, the Department of National Defence, the Canadian Space Agency, and the RCMP with no single body responsible. A public survey conducted for the project found roughly 27 percent of Canadians say they have seen an object in the sky they could not identify, only 10 percent of those people filed a formal report, and about 40 percent would not know who to contact.
The project’s recommendations named AARO as an international partner Canada should formally engage with, alongside NASA and allied offices including France’s GEIPAN and Chile’s SEFAA. Canada was not excluded from the room. On May 24, 2023, former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick hosted the first Five Eyes forum on UAP at the Pentagon. According to CBC News, the Canadian Department of National Defence confirmed Canada attended, led by a Royal Canadian Air Force representative. The specifics remained classified, though it was described as information sharing on UAP. Kirkpatrick referenced holding that first forum publicly a short time afterward at a meeting of NASA’s UAP Independent Study Team.
Sky Canada’s final report, released in June 2025, recommended the Canadian Space Agency take the lead role including managing international partnerships with offices like AARO. The Canadian Space Agency responded that UAP management is not currently part of its mandate. The Office of the Chief Science Advisor is an advisory body, so it can recommend but cannot assign or fund that mandate. Uruguay had a single military body with a clear mandate and 46 years of case files. Canada, after three years of study, still does not have one office to hand the relationship to.
Sources
Annino, L. E. (2026, July 31). Cooperación en la investigación FANI entre la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya y la Oficina de Resolución de Anomalías de Todos los Dominios (AARO). Órbita Cero: Mendoza, Argentina. https://orbitaceromendoza.blogspot.com/2026/07/cooperacion-en-la-investigacion-fani.html
