/ 29 January 2024

The truth isn’t out there

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Sean Kirkpatrick – the bloke who used to be in charge of UFOs at the US Department of Defense – has had it. He recently stepped down as the first director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) – during his time there, his team found that at least 90% of recorded UFO sightings have a logical explanation. And he’s left the job frustrated that his mission was (to his mind, anyway…) hijacked by people inside the US Government who are hard-core alien fans. Speaking to the In The Room podcast in his first post-job interview, Kirkpatrick said he could do nothing to disavow the true believers. “There is no evidence of extraterrestrials. There is no evidence of aliens, and there’s no evidence of the government conspiracy” covering the discovery of alien lifeforms up, he said. But he would say that, wouldn’t he…

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