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Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) at the Pentagon, has addressed accusations of secret UFO and alien-retrieval programs.
Specifically, he discussed the bombshell allegations made by former intelligence official David Grusch before Congress in July.
During his testimony, Grusch claimed the United States government has retrieved and studied UFOs of non-human origin and recovered alien bodies.
Kirkpatrick, who will be replaced by Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks in the coming weeks as the head of the AARO, told NewsNation, “I can’t comment on anything he’s told other people. The only way we can get anything that he has shared to other people is if he gives permission to them to share it because he’s protected under those same laws.
“But I have a whole range. I’ve got almost 40 other people that have come in and provided a lot of rich information that we’ve been investigating and cross-referencing and researching and trying to figure out the truth. And again, that’s what I’m saying. A lot of that is what is going to go in volume one.”
He had stated that there will be a two volume report issued before he is replaced in his current post.
David Grusch had claimed, among many things, “These [programs] are retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will, non-human exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed.”
He added, “Well, naturally, when you recover something that’s either landed or crashed. Sometimes you encounter dead pilots and believe it or not, as fantastical as that sounds, it’s true.”
Grusch claimed there is a “sophisticated disinformation campaign targeting the U.S. populace which is extremely unethical and immoral.”
Journalist Garrett Graff also recently spoke to NewsNation about what he has discovered in the course of writing his new book UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government’s Search for Alien Life Here–And Out There.
“I’ve spent 20 years covering national security,” Graff said. “And to me what is actually more interesting and troubling as a taxpayer and as a citizen as a journalist in the space is I think that the government’s cover up at its core is not about its knowledge of UFOs, but about its ignorance of UFOs.”