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The above image (the idea of which came to me in a flash yesterday) was created to summarize the state of popular ufology in recent weeks. Sean Kirkpatrick (pictured right) was the former head of AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) and after leaving his position at the Pentagon at the end of 2023, he is now wrote a few opinion pieces and conducted a pair of incendiary interviews in which he essentially attributed the current interest in UFOs among Washington politicians to a small group of influential individuals who were trying to convince these lawmakers that UFOs are not just evidence of alien visitations and technology that beyond current understanding. physics; but also that there are deep dark government projects trying to replicate the technology of these alien craft, some of which they have managed to track down and keep hidden from official scrutiny. That was the sworn testimony of whistleblower Dave Grusch (photo left in the background) before the US Congress in July last year.\
“It is essentially a religion, a religious belief that transcends critical thinking and rational thinking.” he said in an interview for The guard.
As you can imagine, this has not been well received by the UFO community. Especially among those in a position to reap the benefits of the modern public interest, who have responded to this controversy in their usual way…
You may think after seeing my cartoon that I’m firmly on the side of ‘Team Kirkpatrick’, but you would actually be wrong. I’m not too happy with his short tenure at AARO, and a fleeting visit to the website created on his behalf for public use shows how little he cared about helping citizens understand the reality of the reports investigated by the agency. The website is woefully lacking any useful information that could allow citizen scientists to work together to help solve the cases.
For example: the ‘Cases’ section of the site has only this to say about the enigmatic ‘Mosul orb’ video that Kirkpatrick himself made was shown before the Senate Subcommittee in 2023:
This clip was captured by an MQ-9 in the Middle East, and while AARO judges that the object in the clip does not exhibit any abnormal behavior, the object remains unidentified.
Taken WHEN, WHERE AND BY WHOM? How long was the object tracked? What were the atmospheric conditions? Was there a reaction from the people on the ground? AARO apparently finds that information redundant…
Oh, and let’s not forget the big SNAFUs of early 2023, when the US government spent thousands of dollars shooting down anomalous objects that were in all likelihood (barring one or two Chinese surveillance platforms) regular balloons, including a scientific project of a hobbyist club. Why didn’t the responsibility fall on Kirkpatrick for failing to properly assess the Pentagon on how to properly respond to such situations?
So among the big ‘armors’ of unsubstantiated claims and shady videos –that are quickly debunked, not after they have been ‘leaked’– and the “nothing to see here” attitude of former Pentagon officials, the public interested in UFOs is faced with enormous cognitive dissonance.
That’s probably what someone behind the curtain was planning all along…
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