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Jon Kosloski

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Jon Kosloski

Dr. Jon Kosloski is the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), appointed in 2024. He is a former National Security Agency physics and engineering leader.

Background

  • Former NSA researcher with expertise in physics and engineering
  • Appointed AARO director in 2024, succeeding Sean Kirkpatrick

Leadership Approach

Kosloski has taken a notably different approach from predecessor Sean Kirkpatrick:

  • Acknowledged the existence of “some very anomalous objects” under investigation, a rhetorical shift from Kirkpatrick’s firmer denials (src-aaro-kosloski-testimony-2024)
  • Said in a media call after the Nov 2024 hearing that AARO is working with partners to downgrade “several particularly interesting cases” so they can be discussed publicly (src-debrief-aaro-course-correcting-2024-11)
  • On the same call: “There are interesting cases that I, with my physics and engineering background and time in the IC, I do not understand. And I don’t know anybody else who understands them either.” — micah-hanks cites this as evidence of a meaningful “course correction” versus the sean-kirkpatrick era
  • Emphasized rebuilding trust with potential witnesses and the UAP community
  • Stated AARO has been “reaching out to the broader community, encouraging folks who had talked to AARO personnel in the past, and maybe felt uncomfortable to come back to us”
  • While acknowledging anomalous cases, maintains AARO has “discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology”

Key Actions

May 15, 2026 — Luna and Burlison endorsement

Per Luna’s X post that day (preserved in src-debrief-pursue-next-batch-preview-2026-05), Kosloski joined Reps. anna-paulina-luna and eric-burlison for a review of “40+ videos set for declassification” — the queue feeding pursue Release 02. Luna’s accompanying message is her first explicit endorsement of Kosloski, after months of pointed criticism of predecessor sean-kirkpatrick. The pivot positions Kosloski as a credible AARO interlocutor for the disclosure caucus and marks AARO’s continued institutional role even as H.R. 8197 (src-aaro-shutdown-bill-2026) remains pending.

June 5, 2026 — AARO report (PURSUE Release 03)

A June 5, 2026 AARO report signed by Kosloski, surfaced in pursue Release 03, describes an orange “mother” orb launching smaller red orbs, and notes that roughly 40% of reported phenomena remain unresolved (src-loeb-pursue-release-03-2026-06). A July 1, 2026 avi-loeb Medium essay adds one new detail from the same report: one red orb was reported stationary for several hours — which Loeb argues is inconsistent with the burn time and descent rate of any known military flare (src-loeb-orbs-fireballs-council-2026-07).

FY2025 Annual Report (July 21, 2026)

AARO’s FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report, released under Kosloski’s leadership, disclosed 319 new UAP reports and the single-largest maritime UAP case in an AARO annual report to date — a Navy account of ~100 airborne objects and two likely-uncrewed surface systems off Virginia’s coast. See virginia-coast-uap-swarm-2025 and src-aaro-fy2025-annual-report-2026-07.

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