Sean Kirkpatrick presentation: All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO): a Duality in Mission Regarding UAPs

[mcmiller1111]

I'm relatively new here, so forgive me if this was posted already. I've looked, but I haven't found it. I thought it might be of interest to people here.

About a month ago Kirkpatrick gave a really interesting speech about how AARO was setup and the many obstacles they had to get past to be able to do their job. The description of the video reads:

"AARO was a Congressionally mandated organization with two missions: 1. organize, streamline, collate, and investigate current reports of military and government sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), and 2. Investigate the US Government's historical works and associated whistleblower accounts regarding UAP/UFO. This presentation will discuss the establishment of the office, the investigations into the allegations, and the associated findings and conclusions.

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In this talk, Dr. Kirkpatrick explains how AARO approached the investigation of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—including military sightings, historical cases, and whistleblower claims about UFOs.

This presentation covers:
How the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office was created and what Congress tasked it to do
How UAP reports from pilots, radar systems, and sensors are analyzed
What AARO found when reviewing decades of U.S. government UFO investigations
The role of data, physics, and intelligence analysis in evaluating extraordinary claims
Common misconceptions about UAP, including sensor errors, balloons, and airborne clutter"




I've extracted the autogenerated transcript YouTube makes which can be read here. It's awfully formatted though, and of course gets some names and acronyms wrong. It's mostly for the purposes of Ctrl+F'ing specific words you might be looking for.

 

[John J.]

Hi mcmiller 1111, and welcome. Thank you for posting this.

There is some discussion of what Kirkpatrick said about balloons in this video in post #363 and onwards, "Unidentified Objects/Balloons Intercepted by US aircraft" thread, but the video is interesting in a more general context re. ARRO/ UAP reporting as well.

 

[Mendel]

I'm relatively new here, so forgive me if this was posted already. I've looked, but I haven't found it.

We hid it.

Discussion related to Kirkpatrick talking about the hazing (YankeeBlue) [1h15m] is here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ya...ome-military-belief-in-ufos.14260/post-367968

 

[Smythe Bacchus]

In this talk, Dr. Kirkpatrick explains how AARO approached the investigation of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—including military sightings, historical cases, and whistleblower claims about UFOs.

Dr Kirkpatrick is straightforward to the point of being blunt. Here, he delves into both his human and technical work as the founding director of AARO.

IMO this is a must watch, especially for those who don't know much about AARO. This is a 1h 40m video, and there is a wealth of topics covered. Transcript extracts below, edited for readability, bold emphasis mine.

(08:59)

The second mission was the historical review. So, in law, I was required to go back and review all of the studies the US government had undertaken for this topic, going back to 1937, I believe it was, if I remember, review all of those, catalog, understand all of those, make sure all of those are available to the public.

And then integrate in a secure manner, these alleged whistle-blowers that were whispering into the ears of Congress of, "Hey there's a conspiracy the government is hiding the aliens, and there's a legacy program".

And pull the thread on every one of those stories, every one of those people that would come to give their statements, and then try to cross-reference not only what they're saying to the historical review, but also investigate what is it that they're actually seeing or alleging, and where is the data, and the evidence that supports that.

All right, what would did we not do? We did not investigate people. That is a common misperception. I had no authority to investigate a person, unless when you came into my office and you gave your statement. There was always a law enforcement official there.

If you came in and told me that, "He had committed a crime", that information is immediately handed to the FBI or AFOSI, and they go off to investigate that as a criminal activity.

If you have evidence of misappropriation of funds, that is an investigation that would go on with the IG and with law enforcement, right?

None of that actually happened.

We did not engage in any disinformation campaigns. contrary to popular belief. But we did investigate disinformation from both domestic and foreign sources.

So, I did have people on staff that understand military deception, and we would go and investigate things that looked like deception being done on us, whether that was from domestic sources, or foreign sources, and we did find some of that.

We weren't reverse engineering any alien technology because unfortunately, I'll just cut to the chase, there is no alien technology. Nor was there any evidence of aliens, or any illegal programs that did not have proper oversight.

(40:58)

I want to get to the really end part, where we talk about some of the more, meatier stuff we can discuss. Really again, just to put it all to bed, for the millionth time, there was no evidence of anything that had to do with extraterrestrial technology.

There were a lot of allegations. My my personal favorite was the piece of metal that that was given to the army that we took control of and went and did isotope measurements on. And and for those of you who are scientifically minded, isotope fingerprinting is pretty definitive and it was definitely terrestrial made.

We didn't find any evidence for private companies doing any sort of reverse engineering of anything. And just to put that one to bed, I did meet with the CTOs of every major defense contractor, prime. They gave us their full cooperation.

In fact, one of them helped me drag out of the closet some, no pun intended, one of their engineers, who believed in something without actually going through, any sort of scientific analysis, and he did some interviews with us, and we kind of got that put to bed, too. This this last point is is really one of the bigger takeaways from the investigation.

Every named program, I had a bunch of people come in and name classified programs. "This program is where the aliens are! No, that program is where the aliens are!". Every one of them was either a misidentified authentic, highly sensitive aerospace program, that they shouldn't, or didn't have access to, but somehow heard something, saw something, somewhere.

None of those were related to extraterrestrial technologies. or they resolved to disestablished programs that we did identify, and put out in the public domain. One of those key ones is Kona Blue, and we'll touch on that in a bit.

And so really, you know, my takeaway to Congress in one of my final outbreaks, in fact, my final outbreak was, "Hey, you you have a security problem! You have an op-sec problem. You have a data problem."

And when I briefed the heads of agencies and services on this, half of them looked at me and put their finger in my chest and said, "Go open a counter intelligence investigation and go after these people". And I would have to say, "I can't. My hands are tied because Congress extended the whistle-blower protections to these people".

So they can walk in and say whatever they want. I can't go after them. "You have a data problem. You need to go plug your data problem. Find out where your data leak is. I can't go after these people". And so I gave that message to Congress, and to the department, and to the IC, and to the DOE, and to everybody else that had programs named.

(53:52)
So, a radar, most of you know how radars work, right? Sends pulse out, gets reflection, pulse comes back, collects it.

But you know today, there's a there's an algorithmic engine behind it. There's a fusion engine. There's AI driven things that that are accelerating how we take that data and turn it into information. What happens when a brand new radar waveform is tested and it goes against an object that's semi-transparent to the radar, maybe I get a missing pulse.

Maybe I get only one out of every five pulses, depending on what it is that it's reflecting off of. And when I see that, if you look at how the fusion engines then interpret that missing information, it tries to extrapolate to the next data point. And when it does that, you get really exciting things like, "Hey, that object accelerated from point-5 mach to two-and-a-half mach in you know, half a second".

But it's not until you pull the raw data out and you look at the the each individual pulse train in that pulse train you understand oh well it missed these datas and now if I go, and I simulate that in the fusion engine, I can recreate that effect. That happened a lot, and it really happens when you're testing new waveforms, like when DARPA tests new waveforms which happened on the Nimitz. It's very exciting.

Radar reflection cubes and calibration spheres. We use those to calibrate our radars. That's what they're for. They're basically balloons with corner cubes in them and we launch them and we shoot radars at them. We get the returns off them. We use them to calibrate, set those up. It's awesome.

So, there's a little known, declassified, CIA program from the late 80s, I think, maybe in mid 90s. And this declassified program was essentially taking radar reflection cubes, calibration spheres, sneaking them up underwater, off the shore of an adversary, and popping them out of the water, and sitting back and watching what happens. How many. What are their radars? What, whether they turn on? What's their response time? Right. Really cool.

Why wouldn't somebody do that to us?

Dr Kirkpatrick's statement above supports the hypothesis of radar targets for the pilot encounters described by Ryan Graves.

Article:

Detailing what the pilot saw, Graves said: "He came back and said, 'Hey, I almost hit one of those damn things.' We all knew what he was referring to even though we didn't necessarily have a name for it, just because we were seeing them so much.

"He described it. He said it was a black or dark gray cube and that cube was inside of a clear translucent sphere. Essentially, the corners or the apex of that cube, as best as he could tell, were touching the inside of that sphere."

Graves admitted that the mystery surrounding the UFOs did not mean that aliens, or something supernatural, were involved.

"The high-probability answer was this was some type of classified program, of our own making, that had started operating in an area they were not supposed to, for whatever reason," Graves said.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-navy-pilot-joe-rogan-podcast-experience-ryan-graves-black-cube-latest-1753132

(51:32 reference to Kona Blue)

So we did actually find a conspiracy but it was not the US government. There was a group of people who have been trying to milk this for many many years, including getting earmarks out of Congress for lots of money. All right, let me talk about operational findings because this is this is sort of important.

(1:07:08)

Kona Blue, right? We were under statute, under you know legislation, to find any program that had anything to do with UAPs, and declassify it, and get it out. So this is the historical mission piece, right? Not the operational piece. We already talked about how difficult that is. And we did. We found an entire proposed, so it's actually a PAP, proposed special access program, called Kona Blue.

It was hidden at DHS and it was actually the follow-on program to AATIP, AAWSAP, by the same group of people wanting to get another $20 million out of the Congress to go stand up seven institutes. You can read about all this because we declassified it and put it all out there. And one of them was to study non-human biologics and one was to study psycho telekinesis and UFO technology and I don't know there all kinds of stuff.

(Audience) Eric Davis

(Dr Kirkpatrick) Well he's involved in like all of this. But this was, you go look up this program. It's it's on the website. You can download all the documents that were declassified. You can read them up. It'll tell you who was involved, what they were trying to do.

This came, the story behind this is essentially, for those of you who have followed the AATIP AAWSAP bit, right? So, Senator Reid at the time had called up um the Secretary of Defense, told him to create a special access program to hide all this information that he was being told existed through the Bigalow contracts, and all the effort that went through that.

The department took a look at this very closely and determined, not just no, but hell no, this was not a real program. This was not an authorized program. This was you know money being used for different purposes than it should be. Not only are we not going to set up a SAP, but we're shutting this AATIP AAWSAP stuff down. Get rid of it.

(1:25:22)

So, I had eyewitnesses, whistle-blowers, who came in and swore up and down, that Kona Blue was the program that was hiding all of this, before we found it and declassified it. All right. And then, once we declassified it, Kona Blue no longer became that program that the people were pointing to, right? They came up with a different name.

At 1:26:47, there is a tense personal exchange with Timothy Gallaudet and Dr Kirkpatrick, after the host Scott Snell of NCAS asked them to chat.

(1:37:22)

So, we intentionally decided that I was going to be the only one that was acknowledged to be part of AARO and we tried to keep everybody else private and and secret because, and including location of the offices, because we didn't want people showing up. We didn't want my staff getting harassed, right? Do you know how many people have showed up to my house? They still show up today.

Dr Kirkpatrick's statements are far more credible and useful than anything the UFO lobby has ever presented to the general public.