Jon Kosloski

National Security Agency scientist with a background in quantum optics who became AARO's permanent director in August 2024.

2024 CE · 38.87, -77.06 · status: official

The account

Kosloski came from the NSA's Research Directorate and succeeded acting director Tim Phillips. His remit included producing the second volume of AARO's congressionally mandated historical report. In written testimony to a Senate Armed Services subcommittee on 19 November 2024, Kosloski said he had spent most of his career at the NSA in optics, computing and crypto mathematics. He said AARO held over 1,600 UAP reports and had found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology, and he promised not to 'foreclose on any explanation for UAP prematurely' (pp.1-3). In a Spring 2026 Naval Postgraduate School interview he repeated that finding and added that AARO has many unresolved cases (p.12).

The sceptical view

Advocates see AARO as structurally unable to access the programmes they allege; sceptics see its findings as the best available evidence.

Connections in the atlas

• Naval Postgraduate School UAP special issue
• Sean Kirkpatrick
• AARO Historical Record Report, Vol. 1
• AARO established

Sources

1. DefenseScoop: Jon Kosloski named AARO director
2. Dr Jon Kosloski, Statement for the Record, SASC Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities (19 November 2024)
3. The CTX Interview: Dr Jon Kosloski (CTX special issue on UAP, US Naval Postgraduate School, Spring 2026)