The UFO congressional listening to was ‘insulting’ to US staff, a prime Pentagon official says

WASHINGTON — A prime Pentagon official has attacked this week’s broadly watched congressional listening to on UFOs, calling the claims “insulting” to staff who’re investigating sightings and accusing a key witness of not cooperating with the official U.S. authorities investigation.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s letter, revealed on his private LinkedIn web page and circulated Friday throughout social media, criticizes a lot of the testimony from a retired Air Power intelligence officer that energized believers in extraterrestrial life and produced headlines around the globe.

Retired Air Power Maj. David Grusch testified Wednesday that the U.S. has hid what he known as a “multi-decade” program to gather and reverse-engineer “UAPs,” or unidentified aerial phenomena, the official authorities time period for UFOs.

A part of what the U.S. has recovered, Grusch testified, have been non-human “biologics,” which he mentioned he had not seen however had realized about from “individuals with direct data of this system.”

A profession intelligence officer, Kirkpatrick was named a 12 months in the past to steer the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Decision Workplace, or AARO, which was meant to centralize investigations into UAPs. The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence companies have been pushed by Congress in recent times to raised examine reviews of units flying at uncommon speeds or trajectories as a nationwide safety concern.

Kirkpatrick wrote the letter Thursday and the Protection Division confirmed Friday that he posted it in a private capability. Kirkpatrick declined to touch upon the letter Friday.

He writes partially, “I can’t let yesterday’s listening to go with out sharing how insulting it was to the officers of the Division of Protection and Intelligence Neighborhood who selected to affix AARO, many with not unreasonable anxieties in regards to the profession dangers this could entail.”

“They’re truth-seekers, as am I,” Kirkpatrick mentioned. “However you definitely wouldn’t get that impression from yesterday’s listening to.”

In a separate assertion, Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough denied different allegations made by Grusch and different witnesses earlier than a Home Oversight subcommittee.

The Pentagon “has no data that any particular person has been harmed or killed because of offering data” about UFO objects, Gough mentioned. Nor has the Pentagon found “any verifiable data to substantiate claims that any applications concerning the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial supplies have existed previously or exist presently.”

Kirkpatrick wrote, “AARO has but to search out any credible proof to assist the allegations of any reverse engineering program for non-human know-how.”

He had briefed reporters in December that the Pentagon was investigating “a number of a whole lot” of recent reviews following a push to have pilots and others come ahead with any sightings.

Kirkpatrick wrote in his letter that allegations of “retaliation, to incorporate bodily assault and hints of homicide, are terribly severe, which is why regulation enforcement is a essential member of the AARO crew, particularly to handle and take swift motion ought to anybody come ahead with such claims.”

“But, opposite to assertions made within the listening to, the central supply of these allegations has refused to talk with AARO,” Kirkpatrick mentioned. He didn’t explicitly title Grusch, who alleged he confronted retaliation and declined to reply when a congressman requested him if anybody had been murdered to cover details about UFOs.

Messages left at a telephone quantity and e mail handle for Grusch weren’t returned Friday.