Pentagon UFO chief shares real probability aliens have crashed into US

15 November 2023 , 18:37

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Dr Sean Kirkpatrick has said he thinks it unlikely that UFOs have crashed into the US

Alien life is unlikely to have crashed into the United States according to a top UFO chief, despite the bombshell claims of a former intelligence official.

Dr Sean Kirkpatrick of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office said that it was not his organisations' job to probe the subject of aliens specifically but to attempt to make sense of objects that at first could not be understood. He said: "Our job is to understand the unknowns and what could be there. What are the possibilities that threaten us? And how do we get at it? How do I apply technical rigour to go after that 'hunt' mission, if you will?"

The Pentagon's UFO chief, who is preparing to resign from his position, said that in many cases they are unable to find an answer and in others, what may have appeared as a flight into the unknown was easily explained, such as a balloon that floated in the wrong place.

The US government launched AARO in 2022 to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and AARO's leader Kirkpatrick revealed what his position involved and some of his findings in a recent interview with Politico. However, after explaining that UFOs are not his main concern, he has become used to answering questions about them and the many sightings that take place.

UFOs are not likely to have come to the US (Getty Images)

He said that if there was no evidence of aliens, that would mean other countries had found ways to invade US airspace without the government knowing about it. He said: "Number one, the best thing that could come out of this job is to prove that there are aliens, right?" Because if we don’t prove there are aliens, then what we’re finding is evidence of other people doing stuff in our backyard. And that’s not good."

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And he claimed that he loves to answer queries about aliens. He said: "From a scientific perspective: The scientific community will agree that it is statistically invalid to believe that there is no life out in the universe, as vast as the universe is and the number of galaxies and solar systems and planets.

"The probability, however, that that life is intelligent and that it has found Earth and that it has come to Earth and that it has repeatedly crashed in the United States is not very probable." His remarks follow on from former intelligence officer with top-secret clearance, David Charles Grusch, claiming that the US has found non-human remains and that his government has a UFO retrieval program.

The Pentagon, like Kirkpatrick, denies the bombshell claims, and Kirkpatrick said: "It's all about what is realistic and statistically probable. Talking about looking for life out in the universe, it is a very objective, very scientifically sound discussion and discourse. As that discussion gets closer to the solar system, somewhere around Mars, it turns into science fiction. And then as you get even closer to Earth, and you cross into Earth’s atmosphere, it becomes conspiracy theory."

Kirkpatrick has been explaining his thoughts as he prepares to leave the agency to retire in December and says he feels he has accomplished his mission. He said that there would be more information, “educational material that will help inform the public,” released by the AARO soon, adding: "“We’ve got a package of a lot of new material that we’ve got ready for release. We’ve uncovered some things that we are having declassified. Not just operational videos, but historical documents."

Paul Donald