The Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), created to centralize UAP investigations, remains the designated authority for analysis.
However, active-duty personnel and veterans have expressed skepticism regarding the office’s credibility and effectiveness.
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The absence of actionable feedback or follow-up investigations deteriorates trust among frontline warfighters who have experienced these encounters firsthand.
Analyst Marik von Rennenkampff, a former Defense and State Department official, reviewed flight records for the timeframe and confirmed no conventional aircraft were near the USS Jackson during the incident.
Rennenkampff concluded that the sightings cannot be explained by commercial, civilian, or military aviation activity.
Wiggins said, “Maybe one day, this will be like the stealth fighter or Area 51, classified for decades and then just accepted. But by then, I’ll be 80 or 90, and it’ll be too late to matter.”