Is the Pentagon really firing the head of the UFO office?
News reports are flying that the whistleblowers don't trust Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the AARO, and will have him gone by the end of the year.
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The UFO community is buzzing with the exciting news that Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, is on his way out the door, hopefully to be replaced with someone who actually does think aliens actively visit the Earth (Kirkpatrick doesn’t).
Is this for real?
Well, whether Kirkpatrick might actually be leaving his post is unknown, there could be plans that haven’t been reported; Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough says there are no personnel changes on the board at AARO. We can say for a certainty that the current report is nonsense; sour grapes from those who demand that AARO endorse their alien visitation beliefs.
Update: The day after I posted this, Kirkpatrick announced he’ll be retiring. He did not cite pressure from alien visitation advocates as the reason.
Here’s how we know this new report being trumpeted is nonsense:
It’s reported on the Daily Fail, instead of on news sources with any remote credibility.
The claim comes only from UFOlogists and alien visitation advocates such as David Grusch and Chris Mellon.
Instead of a fact, it’s merely the stated goal of attorney Daniel Sheehan, a full-spectrum wooist and UFOlogist who founded this bizarre-ass UFO institute and formerly represented UFOlogist Lue Elizondo in his complaint against the government.
The principle tool for trying to kick out Kirkpatrick appears to be a change.org petition. Online petitions have no more influence than dirty people shouting and waving cardboard signs on a street corner. They have no bearing on anything.
The article on Daily Fail says Sheehan told them “Really knowledgeable UFO whistleblowers, people who've laid their hands on the equipment, never did trust Sean [Kirkpatrick].” Evidently Sheehan seems to believe there is alien equipment on Earth and believes people who told him they’ve touched it. Since Kirkpatrick does not acknowledge their beliefs, he is therefore “untrustworthy”.
So this is basically a rinky-dink PR campaign by a small group of people who are highly disconnected from reality. To a kind of scary degree.
Don’t believe it.
Here's a stupid question: If we ever find a reachable planet with intelligent life forms in the next million years, would we:
A. Conduct blinking light flybys to mess with their heads
B. Make them think we meant them harm.
C. Beam a few up to our mothership for experiments
D. Keep them guessing about whether we actually existed
E. Carve a bunch of weird hieroglyphics into one of their mountainsides
E. Diligently try to establish communications