The Pentagon's UFO Office MAKES A BIG Promise
- Cristina Gomez
- May 31
- 4 min read
Updated: Jul 25
The Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has announced its most ambitious project since inception: a comprehensive case management system that could fundamentally transform how the government investigates UFO encounters. This marks AARO’s first procurement solicitation since its establishment in 2022, signaling a potential shift from ad-hoc operations to professional, enterprise-level investigation capabilities. The proposed system would operate on JWICS, the Pentagon’s most classified network handling top secret and compartmented information, representing an unprecedented level of security infrastructure dedicated to UAP research.
The technical specifications reveal the scope of AARO’s ambitions. The unified platform would automatically categorize cases by severity and priority, convert documents into searchable databases with unique identifiers, maintain complete case histories from initiation to resolution, and generate automated responses for report submissions. Perhaps most significantly, the system would cross-reference data points including weather conditions, speed measurements, and location tracking across cases to identify patterns currently invisible to investigators. With over 1,600 UAP reports processed as of November 2024 and numbers continuing to climb, AARO faces a data management crisis that traditional tools cannot address.
According to a Deep Scope article, the procurement timeline reveals both urgency and ambition. Contractors require top secret clearance merely to apply, with responses due by June 9th. The potential contract structure spans one base year with options for four additional years, encompassing not just software development but comprehensive training, ongoing support, and future upgrades. Most notably, the system would enable the first-ever direct civilian reporting mechanism, expanding beyond current restrictions limiting submissions to government employees, service members, and contractors.
However, AARO’s track record raises legitimate questions about execution capabilities. The organization has consistently failed to meet deadlines since its July 2022 establishment. Their mandated website launch was significantly delayed due to bureaucratic hurdles, and when finally operational in August 2023, it lacked basic functionality including email addresses or phone numbers for report submissions. Subsequent mandated reports have arrived late, reinforcing perceptions of institutional inefficiency and undermining public confidence in the organization’s ability to deliver on ambitious promises.
The leadership transition from Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick to Dr. Jon Kosloski in August 2024 highlighted organizational contradictions that continue to plague AARO’s credibility. Kirkpatrick’s tenure was marked by apparent inconsistencies between his public statements dismissing UAP significance and his academic collaboration with Harvard’s Dr. Avi Loeb on papers hypothesizing extraterrestrial motherships deploying “dandelion seed” drones throughout solar systems. This duality raised questions about whether AARO directors face institutional pressure to downplay findings publicly while acknowledging more exotic possibilities in academic contexts.
Kosloski’s brief public tenure has been equally problematic. His sole media appearance involved explaining the Aguadilla incident as parallax without providing supporting data or methodologies, undermining scientific credibility through unsubstantiated claims. Unlike his predecessor who conducted multiple interviews, Kosloski has maintained near-complete media silence since assuming leadership, creating an information vacuum that fuels public skepticism about AARO’s transparency commitments.
The GREMLIN sensor system represents AARO’s most tangible technological advancement, developed in partnership with Georgia Tech Research Institute and Department of Energy laboratories. This portable detection platform combines radar, electro-optical and infrared cameras, and electromagnetic sensors in a deployable configuration that can be transported in standard Pelican cases. After successful March 2024 testing demonstrating its ability to detect various phenomena including bats, birds, and solar flaring, GREMLIN was deployed for a 90-day pattern-of-life collection at an undisclosed national security site with prior UAP activity.
GREMLIN operates as a “living system” test bed for sensor fusion technologies, with capabilities to swap sensors and algorithms based on evolving requirements. This adaptability positions it as more than a static detection platform, potentially serving as a foundation for expanded UAP research capabilities. However, AARO has provided no public updates on GREMLIN’s findings since deployment, maintaining the same opacity that has characterized the organization’s approach to data sharing and methodological transparency.
The broader implications of AARO’s case management system extend beyond operational efficiency. If successfully implemented, the platform could establish UAP investigation as a permanent government function rather than a temporary curiosity. The sophisticated data cross-referencing capabilities might reveal patterns in UAP encounters that individual case analysis cannot detect, potentially leading to breakthrough understanding of these phenomena. The planned expansion to civilian reporting could dramatically increase data collection, providing researchers with unprecedented access to encounter reports from across the general population.
Yet AARO’s institutional challenges suggest significant obstacles to realizing these potential benefits. The organization currently employs only “several dozen” personnel according to Director Kosloski, raising questions about whether current staffing levels can support expanded operations required by the new system. The historical pattern of delayed deliverables and incomplete implementations indicates systemic problems that technology alone cannot resolve. More fundamentally, AARO’s approach to transparency and data sharing suggests the sophisticated new platform might simply create more efficient ways to withhold information from public scrutiny.
The June 9th deadline for contractor responses will provide the first concrete indication of whether AARO can execute its ambitious technological vision. However, given the organization’s track record of missed deadlines and incomplete implementations, skepticism about delivery timelines appears warranted. The more significant question involves whether AARO possesses the institutional commitment to transparency necessary to make this technological capability meaningful for public understanding of UAP phenomena, or whether the sophisticated new system will simply create more efficient mechanisms for maintaining the secrecy that has characterized government UAP research for decades.
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