A high-ranking U.S. official told a Senate subcommittee last Wednesday that UFO encounters might stem from contact with spy technologies deployed by foreign adversaries.
Sean M. Kirkpatrick, director of the Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), briefed the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on AARO’s activities.
“In the nine months since AARO’s establishment, we have taken important steps to improve [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)] data collection, standardize the Department’s UAP internal reporting requirements, and implement a framework for rigorous scientific and intelligence analysis, resolving cases in a systematic and prioritized manner,” Kirkpatrick said.
During his testimony, Kirkpatrick said there had been at least 650 cases of UAP sightings that have not been explained, claiming that his office is ruling aliens out for now.
“I should … state clearly for the record that in our research AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics,” Kirkpatrick said.
He testified that foreign adversaries of the United States might have technology that U.S. intelligence is not privy to, explaining that part of AARO’s mission is to anticipate what countries like Russia and China might be doing.
“This is a hunt mission for what might somebody be doing in our backyard that we don’t know about. That is what we are doing,” Kirkpatrick said, according to AZ Central.
U.S. Air Force pilots, in particular, have reported seeing many unusual activities from UAPs, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
“They’re all going against the wind. The wind’s 120 knots to the west. Look at that thing, dude!” one pilot said of a UAP in a video declassified by the Pentagon in 2020.
“The adversary is not waiting. They are advancing, and they are advancing quickly. If I were to put on some of my old hats, I would tell you they are less risk-averse at technical advancement than we are. They are just willing to try things and see if it works,” Kirkpatrick said, per AZ Central.