Editing All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (section)

== Reactions ==

''[[Politico]]'' reported on August 10, 2023, that "AARO is required by law to launch a public-facing website where witnesses can directly report potential UFO sightings" but that this "website is tied up in Pentagon red tape".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Seligman |first1=Lara |last2=Gould |first2=Joe |date=10 August 2023 |title=UFO reporting hotline is MIA |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/10/pentagon-ufo-reporting-00110566 |publisher=[[Politico]] |access-date=11 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810094649/https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/10/pentagon-ufo-reporting-00110566 |archive-date=August 10, 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> A public website was launched for AARO on August 31, 2023.<ref name="DefenseScoop August 2023">{{cite web |url=https://defensescoop.com/2023/08/30/hicks-takes-direct-oversight-of-pentagons-uap-office-new-reporting-website-to-be-launched |title=Hicks takes direct oversight of Pentagon's UAP office; new reporting website to be launched |last=Vincent |first=Brandi |date=30 August 2023 |website=defensescoop.com |publisher=DefenseScoop |access-date=1 September 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831230836/https://defensescoop.com/2023/08/30/hicks-takes-direct-oversight-of-pentagons-uap-office-new-reporting-website-to-be-launched/ |archive-date=31 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-launches-new-website-declassified-info-ufos-rcna102897 |title=Pentagon launches 'one-stop shop' for declassified info about UFOs |last=Richards |first=Zoë |date=31 August 2023 |publisher=[[NBC News]] |access-date=1 September 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901015206/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-launches-new-website-declassified-info-ufos-rcna102897 |archive-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

Writing for [[Politico.com|''Politico'']], [[Bryan Bender]] quoted [[Christopher Mellon]], former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and an advisor to the company [[To the Stars (company)|To the Stars]], as saying "It further legitimizes the issue", adding "That in itself is extremely important. People can talk about it without fear of embarrassment." Mellon also said, "We are talking dozens of incidents in restricted military airspace over years."<ref>{{cite news |last=Bender |first=Bryan|author-link=Bryan Bender|title=Senators want the public to see the government's UFO reports|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/senators-ufo-government-reports-336021|date=June 23, 2020|work=[[Politico.com]] |access-date=July 23, 2020}}</ref>

In July 2020, United States Senator [[Marco Rubio]] stated that he was worried that an adversary country had achieved "some technological leap" that "allows them to conduct this sort of activity", while also saying that there might be a conventional explanation that was "boring".<ref name="Blumenthal"/>

In a piece originally published in ''[[Newsweek]]'', astrophysicist [[Adam Frank]] wrote, "If it's handled well, the [UAP] commission could do more than shed much-needed light on UAPs. It could also give Americans a masterclass in the most basic, most important, and unfortunately, most boring topic in science: Standards of Evidence" and that "when it comes to UAPS/UFOs there are no such standards. It's just a free-for-all."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Frank |first1=Adam |title=NASA brings standards of evidence to the search for UFOs |url=https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/nasa-brings-standards-of-evidence-to-the-search-for-ufos-527122/ |website=NewsCenter - University of Rochester |date=July 25, 2022 |publisher=University of Rochester |access-date=2022-09-01}}</ref>

Journalist [[Keith Kloor]] criticized the involvement of reality TV personality [[Travis S. Taylor]]. Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough confirmed to Kloor for an article on ''Science''Insider, the online news section of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|AAAS]] that Taylor had a leading role on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and was informally referred to as its chief scientist.<ref name="Science-29June2022" /> Kloor characterized Taylor as "a researcher who believes in the supernatural". Kloor wrote, "Critics are simply astonished by what they call his antiscientific embrace of the supernatural — and the Pentagon's willingness to work with him". According to skeptic and science writer [[Robert Sheaffer]], "I'm starting to see why [the government's] task force was so unsuccessful in identifying its UAPs!".<ref name="Science-29June2022">{{cite news |last1=Kloor |first1=Keith |title=Pentagon UFO study led by researcher who believes in the supernatural |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/pentagon-ufo-study-led-researcher-who-believes-supernatural |access-date=July 19, 2022 |publisher=Science |date=June 29, 2022}}</ref>