The UFO Congressional Listening to Was ‘Insulting’ to US Workers, a High Pentagon Official Says

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prime Pentagon official has attacked this week’s widely watched congressional hearing 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, printed on his private LinkedIn web page and circulated Friday throughout social media, criticizes a lot of the testimony from a retired Air Drive intelligence officer that energized believers in extraterrestrial life and produced headlines world wide.

Retired Air Drive Maj. David Grusch testified Wednesday that the U.S. has hid what he referred to 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 stated he had not seen however had realized about from “folks with direct information of this system.”

A profession intelligence officer, Kirkpatrick was named a yr 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 businesses have been pushed by Congress in recent years to raised examine studies of gadgets 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 didn’t return messages in search of remark.

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

“They’re truth-seekers, as am I,” Kirkpatrick stated. “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 info that any particular person has been harmed or killed because of offering info” about UFO objects, Gough stated. Nor has the Pentagon found “any verifiable info to substantiate claims that any applications relating to the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial supplies have existed up to now or exist at the moment.”

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

He had briefed reporters in December that the Pentagon was investigating “a number of tons of” of recent studies 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 critical, which is why regulation enforcement is a important member of the AARO workforce, 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 stated. 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 cellphone quantity and e mail tackle for Grusch weren’t returned Friday.

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