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Physicist who led the Pentagon's UAP office from 2022 to 2023.

Kirkpatrick, a physicist with a background in defense intelligence, was the founding director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office from 2022 until December 2023.

Under him, AARO began work on its historical report, whose first volume in 2024 said it found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology. After leaving, he wrote that many claims came from a small group of believers. Critics in Congress and the field dispute his conclusions.

Sources

• AARO (aaro.mil)

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