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Ex-AARO chief: no evidence of aliens
In January 2024 Sean Kirkpatrick, AARO's first director, wrote in Scientific American that he had found no evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.
2024 CE · 38.91, -77.04 · status: account
The account
Kirkpatrick, who led AARO from July 2022 to December 2023, attributed claims of a cover-up largely to unauthorised disclosures and circular reporting among a small group of believers. The essay is the clearest statement of the official sceptical position of the 2020s.
The sceptical view
Disclosure advocates argue AARO never had access to the most secret programmes; sceptics reply that no witness has produced verifiable evidence of them.
Connections in the atlas
- Sean Kirkpatrick: Said he had seen the government’s records and expected no ma
- Sean Kirkpatrick
- AARO Historical Record Report, Vol. 1
- Grusch testimony
- AARO established