Luna Backs AARO Director After Year Of Attacks

Anna Paulina Luna spent more than a year publicly calling for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, known as AARO, to be defunded and shut down. This week, she posted a photo of herself standing alongside the new AARO Director Jon Kosloski and Representative Eric Burlison, captioning it with her full endorsement of the new Director and his good-faith work on declassification. The shift came after a long-form interview with the Sol Foundation alongside Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb.

In an interview with the Sol Foundation, Luna described the previous AARO leadership under Sean Kirkpatrick as awful and stated she believed the office had been intentionally set up to block, stonewall, and suppress information. According to Luna, the new Director recently met with her and other members of Congress and apologized for the conduct of the prior leadership. Reference to her own statements in the same interview shows she still does not believe AARO needs to exist as an office, citing redundancy with existing FBI investigations.

Anna Paulina Luna endorses AARO

The reversal centers on more than 40 UAP videos requested by Luna and sourced from whistleblowers inside the intelligence community and the Department of War. According to Luna, the Department of War has located the files and is now reviewing them for release within a 30-day window. There is a wrinkle in the timing. Representative Eric Burlison has stated the next drop will come every two weeks, while Luna is saying 30 days, based on her direct conversation with the Department of War.

The timeline raises a fair question. Jon Kosloski has served as AARO Director since August 2024. Sean Kirkpatrick resigned in December 2023. That means for roughly 21 months, the AARO that Luna and Representative Tim Burchett were pushing to defund has not been run by Kirkpatrick at all. Why the meeting between Luna and Kosloski did not happen sooner remains an open question.

Luna also stated in the same interview, according to her own statements, that she and Representative Burlison were heading directly to CIA headquarters after the recording. A whistleblower had testified under oath in the Senate that the CIA went to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and physically removed boxes of documents being prepared for declassification. (Read more here). 

House Oversight has already sent a preservation of documents request to the CIA. Luna connected this CIA pattern to the UAP fight, calling for whistleblower immunity, the same language found inside the UAP Disclosure Act co-sponsored by Senator Mike Rounds and Senator Chuck Schumer.

Adding to the moment, the SETI Institute, founded in 1984 with funding ties to NASA and the Department of Energy, announced it will host the opening-night screening of the new Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day on June 12 at Century Cinema 16 in Mountain View, California. A SETI scientist will take audience questions after the screening. Reference to SETI’s own outreach pages confirms this is a pattern. The Institute hosted the March opening-night screening of Project Hail Mary, has held public screenings of the 1997 film Contact with Jill Tarter, and senior astronomer Seth Shostak has worked as a Hollywood science advisor for years.

Sources

C-SPAN. (2026, May 13). CIA whistleblower alleges federal cover-up of COVID-19 origins [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKFaL8qPbM

Luna, A. P. [@realannapaulina]. (2026, May 15). Finished review of 40+ videos set for declassification out of @DeptofWar in coming weeks this am. 🇺🇸 [Post]. X. https://x.com/realannapaulina/status/2055353936132116533

The Sol Foundation. (2026, May 15). Congresswoman Luna and Dr. Avi Loeb: Breaking UAP disclosure news [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rFSlorsSI

SETI Institute. [@SETIInstitute]. (2026, May 15). What would change if we knew we weren’t alone? On June 12th, join us for an opening-night screening of Disclosure Day [Post]. X. https://x.com/SETIInstitute/status/2055362691603009856