Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Sean Kirkpatrick
Physicist and intelligence official, first director of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (July 2022 – December 2023).
2022 CE · 38.87, -77.06 · status: official
The account
With a physics PhD from the University of Georgia, Kirkpatrick worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory, CIA, DIA and other agencies. He was the sole witness at a Senate subcommittee hearing on UAP in April 2023, and in January 2024 wrote in Scientific American that he found no evidence of aliens and that coverup narratives grew from circular reporting. He then joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The sceptical view
Disclosure advocates accuse him of dismissing whistleblowers; he replies that none produced verifiable evidence.
Connections in the atlas
- AARO Historical Record Report, Vol. 1
- AARO director's Senate testimony
- Jon Kosloski
- Ex-AARO chief: no evidence of aliens
- Grusch testimony
- AARO established