Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and apparent unofficial spokesperson for the government’s UFO control group, penned yet another op-ed for Scientific American this week that attempts to dispel allegations that the Pentagon operates secret UFO crash retrieval and reverse-engineering programs. Kirkpatrick wrote that AARO should be relieved of its responsibility to investigate the alleged programs so it can focus solely on analyzing UAP reports. Links/Sources: We Need to Investigate UFOs. But Without the Distraction of Conspiracy Theories | Scientific American Lue Elizondo on X: "Friends, it's always most quiet before the storm. There is no going back. Some members of Congress finally know what's going on, some officials in the Executive Branch are scrambling. Efforts are underway below the wave tops. The results of which will break the surface and…" / X (twitter.com) richard butt on X: "Kirkpatrick claims that during his tenure no source came to AARO with “firsthand knowledge of anything to do with an alleged reverse-engineering program of extraterrestrial spacecraft. @marcorubio clearly states there are other high-level individuals with firsthand knowledge…" / X (twitter.com) ᴋʟᴀᵾs on X: "Sean Kirkpatrick loves to point out that AARO’s mission isn’t to address the question of extraterrestrial life. Oddly, after leaving, he now writes articles addressing the question of extraterrestrial life almost every single week. https://t.co/DizGZuPL1Z" / X (twitter.com) Check out my YouTube channel: Quirk Zone - YouTube Extraterrestrial Reality book recommendations: Link to ROSWELL: THE ULTIMATE COLD CASE: CLOSED: https://amzn.to/3O2loSI Link to COMMUNION by Whitley Strieber: https://amzn.to/3xuPGqi Link to THE THREAT by David M. Jacobs: https://amzn.to/3Lk52nj Link to TOP SECRET/MAJIC by Stanton Friedman: https://amzn.to/3xvidfv Link to NEED TO KNOW by Timothy Good:  https://amzn.to/3BNftfT Link to UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE, VOLUME 1:  https://amzn.to/3xxJvlv Link to UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE, VOLUME 2: https://amzn.to/3UhdQ1l Link to THE ALLAGASH ABDUCTIONS: https://amzn.to/3qNkLSg Link to UFO CRASH RETRIEVALS by Leonard Stringfield: https://amzn.to/3RGEZKs FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE by Major Donald Keyhoe: https://amzn.to/3S7Wkxv CAPTURED: THE BETTY AND BARNEY HILL UFO EXPERIENCE by Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden: https://amzn.to/3tKNVXn --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-quirk/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-quirk/support