Person
Jon T. Kosloski
Also known as Kosloski, Jon Kosloski
- Director, AARO (2024–)
- Former research leader, National Security Agency (optics, computing, cryptomathematics)
Jon T. Kosloski is a mathematician, physicist and engineer who spent most of his career at the National Security Agency leading research in optics, computing and cryptomathematics. He was named director of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office on 26 August 2024, succeeding founding director Sean Kirkpatrick and acting director Tim Phillips.
At his first public hearing, before Kirsten Gillibrand's Senate subcommittee on 19 November 2024, he struck a more open tone than his predecessor while keeping the same bottom line. AARO had more than 1,600 reports and had found "no verifiable evidence" of extraterrestrial beings or technology. Most resolved cases were balloons, birds, drones and Starlink flares. Yet he said AARO has "some very anomalous objects", described open cases such as a silent black object seen by a police officer and an airliner-sized cylinder seen by contractors, and invited witnesses of "potential historic or ongoing legacy programs" to come forward. He showed the office's work on the Aguadilla, GoFast and Mount Etna videos, publishing its calculations so the public can "check our math".
Under Kosloski, AARO's case resolutions have continued, and Tim Gallaudet has accepted the GoFast finding while disputing AARO's wider conclusions. Whistleblower Dylan Borland says a flawed memorandum of his AARO interview was passed to the ODNI on Kosloski's watch.
Sources: Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing (19 November 2024) · MeriTalk · AARO GoFast case resolution (2025)
Facts and claims
- documented Named director of AARO on August 26, 2024. Source: meritalk.com (archived)
- claimed Introducing himself to the Senate in November 2024, he said he has an academic background in mathematics, physics and engineering and spent most of his career at the National Security Agency leading advanced research in optics, computing and cryptomathematics. — Jon T. Kosloski Source: Oversight Hearing on AARO and UAPs/UFOs Nov 19th 2024 (UnEdited) at 6:17
- claimed He testified that AARO held over 1,600 UAP reports, that many resolve to birds, balloons, unmanned systems and, increasingly, Starlink satellite flares, and that “to date AARO has not discovered any verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology.” — Jon T. Kosloski Source: Oversight Hearing on AARO and UAPs/UFOs Nov 19th 2024 (UnEdited) at 7:38
- claimed He also said: “AARO does not believe every object is a bird, a balloon or a UAV. We do have some very anomalous objects”, and that the office's most interesting cases are triangles and cylinders. — Jon T. Kosloski Source: Oversight Hearing on AARO and UAPs/UFOs Nov 19th 2024 (UnEdited) at 16:55
- claimed He presented AARO's resolutions of the 2013 Puerto Rico (Aguadilla) video, assessed as likely balloons or sky lanterns with a thermal-crossover effect, the GoFast video, assessed with high confidence to be near 13,000 feet with parallax making it look fast, and a 2018 Mount Etna video, resolved by 3D modelling. — Jon T. Kosloski Source: Oversight Hearing on AARO and UAPs/UFOs Nov 19th 2024 (UnEdited) at 13:52
- claimed He described open cases, including a law-enforcement officer in the West who saw a “blacker than black” object the size of a Prius shoot up silently, and government contractors in the Southeast who saw a stationary metallic cylinder the size of an airliner. — Jon T. Kosloski Source: Oversight Hearing on AARO and UAPs/UFOs Nov 19th 2024 (UnEdited) at 22:40
- claimed He said AARO had met several interlocutors of people claiming first-hand knowledge, and a couple of first-hand witnesses, and asked senators to encourage witnesses to come forward for a fuller investigation of “potential historic or ongoing legacy programs.” — Jon T. Kosloski Source: Oversight Hearing on AARO and UAPs/UFOs Nov 19th 2024 (UnEdited) at 33:40
- claimed He said AARO's university partnerships were “lacking” because data must first be declassified, and that the office had hired declassification experts and was working with the National Archives to publish UAP records. — Jon T. Kosloski Source: Oversight Hearing on AARO and UAPs/UFOs Nov 19th 2024 (UnEdited) at 25:40
- claimed Dylan Borland says AARO acknowledged errors in its memorandum of his interview but that the uncorrected version later reached the ODNI under Kosloski. Tim Gallaudet says Kosloski has stated that many orbs have no explanation. — Dylan Borland Source: “A Top Government Official Told Me Aliens Run Everything!” -Dylan Borland UNLEASHED at 1:58:03
Connected files
Claims
- The objects Navy F/A-18 crews tracked off the U.S. East Coast in 2014–15 were not conventional aircraft, drones or balloons (disputes claim)
- The U.S. has recovered the bodies of non-human beings from crashed craft (disputes claim)
- The U.S. holds recovered craft of non-human origin and runs a secret program to reverse-engineer them (disputes claim)
Events
- Jon Kosloski named AARO director (subject of)
Incidents
- Aguadilla “Puerto Rico object” (statement about)
- Mount Etna object (2018 drone video) (statement about)
Programs
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (led) — Director from August 2024 (named August 26, 2024)
Hearings & briefings
People
- Kirsten Gillibrand (questioned by) — His first public hearing was before Gillibrand's Senate subcommittee on 19 November 2024
- Sean Kirkpatrick (succeeded) — Named AARO director in August 2024, succeeding Kirkpatrick and acting director Tim Phillips
- Dylan Borland (statements by)
Documents
- AARO case resolution: "Go Fast" (2025) (presented) — He presented AARO's resolution of the GoFast video, publishing its calculations
Concepts
- Crash retrieval & reverse engineering (investigated) — He said AARO had met interlocutors and a couple of first-hand witnesses, and asked senators to encourage more to come forward
Videos
- Oversight Hearing on AARO and UAPs/UFOs Nov 19th 2024 (UnEdited) (speaks in)
- Christopher Mellon on UFOs, secrecy and what the public still doesn't know (The Chris Cuomo Project, 2025) (discussed in)
- Christopher Mellon, “We Are Not Alone”: a reflection on UAP (Disclosure Foundation, 2025) (discussed in)
- “A Top Government Official Told Me Aliens Run Everything!” -Dylan Borland UNLEASHED (discussed in)
- Top Navy Admiral: “The Ocean is FULL OF UFOs!” (discussed in)
Mentioned in documents and records
- Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (DoD / AARO, November 2024)
- AARO case slides for the Senate Armed Services subcommittee (19 November 2024)