Who is Dr. Jon Kosloski, the AARO director?

“Dr. Jon T. Kosloski is the U.S. Department of War's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) director who delivered the office's 2026 GOFAST resolution: 'Through a very careful geospatial intelligence analysis and 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.'”

Dr. Jon T. Kosloski is the director of the U.S. Department of War's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the central body that investigates and assesses UAP reports across the U.S. military and intelligence community. Kosloski took the role following AARO's 2022 statutory establishment under the National Defense Authorization Act and the brief tenure of inaugural director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick. Kosloski's most public 2026 statement was AARO's resolution of the 2017 USS Theodore Roosevelt GOFAST video: 'Through a very careful geospatial intelligence analysis and 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.' AARO assesses every PURSUE-released file before declassification and assigns one of four statuses — corroborated, anomalous, unresolved, or resolved. Under Kosloski's leadership AARO has continued the periodic 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' reports to Congress.