Broken AARO: Questions Mount Over 'Go Fast' UFO Investigation
Written by Christopher Sharp - 20 November 2024
Concerns are growing over the analysis of a supposedly resolved UAP case by the U.S. government's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), tasked with investigating UAP incidents.
Yesterday, during a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Dr. Jon Kosloski, the new Director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), claimed that the 'Go Fast' video—filmed in January 2016 and appearing to depict a UAP above the ocean off the U.S. East Coast, as recorded by a startled U.S. Navy aircrew—had been explained.
But speaking to Liberation Times, former naval aviator lieutenant Ryan Graves and founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, stated that the AARO has not even spoken to the Weapons Systems Officer who witnessed the UAP and recorded the Go Fast video.
Graves told Liberation Times:
“I spoke to the Weapons Systems Officer, who recorded the video a couple of weeks ago and he confirmed no one from the AARO spoke to him.”
Graves added:
“I think it’s important to raise the point that the AARO’s lack of conversation with witnesses on videos they are attempting to resolve indicates they are simply finding technicalities to ‘resolve’ video evidence versus looking for the truth.
“They ask for witnesses to come forward but why would they if they don’t consider their testimony?”
This has sparked major concerns regarding how the AARO conducts its UAP investigations.
Former U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Analyst and Practicing Attorney, Sean Munger, told Liberation Times:
“From the presentation at yesterday's Senate hearing by Dr. Kosloski, it appears to me that AARO did not resolve the UAP event commonly known as “Go Fast”.
“Unanswered questions remain: What was the object, where did it originate, where did it go, etc?
“Instead, AARO simply addressed the name of the file, ‘Go Fast’, and concluded it was not going fast per se. Furthermore, it is my understanding that AARO did not communicate with the flight crew that took the video, which implies the AARO investigators lack a full situational awareness of the incident.
“In any proper investigation, it is imperative for the fact finder - in this case AARO - to know the totality of circumstances leading up to the recorded video as well as the events that occurred following.
“I look forward to read any published materials AARO can provide to explain the question they were attempting to answer and methods applied.”
AARO’s findings on the Go Fast case, displayed on a screen during the hearing were that:
‘Following in-depth computational analysis of Navy aircraft's flight characteristics and sensor readings, AARO, in coordination with S&T partners, assesses with high confidence the UAP did not demonstrate any anomalous speeds or flight characteristics.’
Kosloski added:
“The Go Fast captured the public attention and congressional attention when it was made public in 2017. It looks like an object flying very fast over the water, very close to the water. Through a very careful geospatial intelligence analysis, using trigonometry, we assess with high confidence that the object is not actually close to the water, but is rather closer to 13,000 feet.
“[The] diagram here shows the platform is flying and capturing the object. If it is closer to the platform at higher altitude, a trick of the eye called parallax makes it look like the object is moving much faster. And so we've written a detailed paper on parallax, released that on our website so that the public can literally check our math on this analysis.”
The Go Fast object was recorded within just minutes of another UAP sighting recorded on video off the U.S. East Coast, known as Gimbal, which depicts a wingless object rotating against the wind, and accompanied by other unknown objects.
Speaking about the broader context of the Go Fast UAP, Graves added:
“The pilots certainly didn’t find the object interesting due to its speed. If anything, the AARO has merely debunked its own labelling of the footage.
“What’s anomalous about the object isn’t its speed, but the fact it was recorded just minutes apart from the Gimbal video, further highlighting that multiple objects were operating in the area—far more than what the initial video alone reveals.
“I have spoken with the flight crew recently and they stated that Go Fast was part of a four-object formation flying line abreast with about a mile separation between them.”
Ultimately, following the AARO’s analysis, key questions remain, such as what the Go Fast video represents, how it fits in within the broader context of objects seen by the U.S. Navy during that time, where it originated from and who controlled it.
Although the AARO considers the case resolved, it remains no closer to determining what objects—or potential foreign adversaries—have penetrated restricted airspace and continue to do so to this day, according to multiple Liberation Times sources.
Crucially, according to Graves, this ongoing activity continues to pose a safety risk to military aircrews, suggesting that the AARO’s efforts have done little to enhance the safety of service members.
