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Pentagon UFO chief reveals US military's new 'alien tech' crash retrieval program
Updated: 09:24 EDT, 1 November 2024
The Pentagon's former chief UFO investigator has revealed a sensitive new government program to recover 'alleged alien tech' in the event of a 'shoot down.'
Dr Sean Kirkpatrick — a longtime CIA scientist who headed the US military's UFO-chasing All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — admitted to the program's existence when pressed during a new interview.
The retrieval program's protocols were for 'any UAP recovery' involving 'everything from balloons to drones to alleged alien tech,' as Dr Kirkpatrick told podcast host John Michael Godier.
In recent years, Pentagon brass, NASA experts and academics have all reframed what were once called 'flying saucers' as 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' (UAP).
The revelation is the first time that the US government has officially acknowledged a UAP or UFO retrieval program, despite decades of speculation and whistleblower testimony that America has already been in possession of alien craft for decades.
It also comes amid multiple federal investigations into 'mothership' UFOs over key US military sites, releasing hard to identify, much less catch, 'drone swarm' UFOs.
This week, the Pentagon's North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) admitted that America's military installations have been plagued, since 2022, by at least 600 so-called 'drone' incursions, many still unexplained.
Classified documents suggest that the new UFO crash retrieval program began in early 2023, with a focus on 'response and recovery and material transfer.'
Dr Kirkpatrick initiated high-level meetings formalizing AARO's version of a UFO crash retrieval program in January and February 2023 — according to the redacted documents released last September via the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
As one scheduling email explained: 'The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the disposition of funding within the context of safety and security implications of UAP.'
Establishing 'a receiving point' for any and all recovered UFO materials was one key issue to be addressed, the meeting memo added.
'The problem is those types of activities are already covered under Foreign Materiel Collection and Analysis,' as Dr Kirkpatrick told Godier and listeners to his Event Horizon podcast Thursday.
'There's already a process and procedures in place for many of these things,' he continued.
'So this conversation was really to start [asking]: How do we document that for UAP? And, what kind of procedures do we need to put in place?'
Since at least the dawn of the Cold War, America has had crash retrieval programs, led by the CIA, but comprising all branches of the US military.
These programs were set up mainly to acquire Russian and Chinese tech, including the CIA's top secret salvaging of a nuclear-equipped, sunken Soviet sub in 1974.
'Equally important was retrieving US fragments that had landed in foreign nations to prevent the Soviets from recovering and exploiting them,' according to curator James E. David of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Space Command was only the just one of the branches AARO consulted.
Leadership from the White House's Joint Chiefs of Staff also weighed in on the UFO recovery effort, including its directorates for intelligence (J2), operations (J3), strategy and policy (J5).
'AARO is Congressionally directed to come up with not just standard reporting procedures, but also mitigation and response procedures in the event of a shoot down or a collection of any sort of UAP,' Dr Kirkpatrick said.
'To do that mitigation and response, as well as standardized reporting,' he added, 'will occur through all of the combatant commands.'
'Because they already have people in place that would collect [crashes].'
'Like, if we shot down another Chinese high altitude balloon, it's that team that would go and collect it, right? It's those procedures and processes on how it gets notified and how we go and get it.'
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