Feb 02, 2024
Written By [Christopher Sharp](https://www.liberationtimes.com/?author=610434e320e3e945538177b1)
Written by [Christopher Sharp](https://twitter.com/ChrisUKSharp) \- 2 February 2024
America’s official Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) investigation has failed.
And the media is complicit.
Comments [from its former Director Dr Sean Kirkpatrick](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/) have sought to discredit serious allegations regarding potentially illegal programs connected with materials of non-human origin.
Dr Kirkpatrick even suggested tic tac-shaped objects, such as the one which out-manoeuvred a top gun pilot in 2004 could be explained by a [balloon produced in Florida](https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4432225-what-has-happened-to-the-pentagons-former-ufo-hunter/).
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Have no doubt – all the most pressing concerns and serious allegations regarding UAP are being buried and brushed aside.
Following the hollowing out of the [UAP Disclosure Act](https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment.pdf) (UAPDA), the vultures are circling and looking to put the genie back in the box.
The mainstream media is a pale shadow of its former self.
Long gone are the multi-sourced deep investigations searching for truth, no matter how alarming.
Instead, we are bombarded with opinions [informed](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/26/opinions/ufos-actual-truth-bergen-german/index.html) by the tainted views of Dr Kirkpatrick [and a novice debunker](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html).
The New York Times, historically known for its esteemed journalism, [has shifted its coverage of the topic](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/us/politics/ufos-aliens-classified-briefing.html) to a tone that is both patronizing and reminiscent of tabloid reporting.
Opinion is easy.
Easier than investigating a Department of Defense (DoD) [which has failed to pass an audit for six years](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-audit-sixth-year-row-2023-11-16/).
Easier than delving into the intelligence community, [whose previous shortcomings resulted in a costly invasion of Iraq based on unreliable information](https://apnews.com/article/iraq-war-wmds-us-intelligence-f9e21ac59d3a0470d9bfcc83544d706e).
In today’s age of journalism, any writer can spout off their ill-informed views. It takes time and hard work to do the deep digging – something not valued in much of today’s media landscape.
Instead of representing whistleblowers and investigating their claims, the media, in the instance of UAP, have turned into DoD and intelligence community propaganda machines.
And when it comes to framing key announcements and new reports, the DoD [can count](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/pentagon-ufo-chief-sean-kirkpatrick-ufo-aaro/articleshow/105056111.cms?from=mdr) on [publications](https://defensescoop.com/2023/10/18/dods-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office-is-now-investigating-more-than-800-uap-cases/) it can leak to for primary definition.
The less awkward the questions, the better.
Dr Kirkpatrick, [through one interview](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-the-pentagon-really-hiding-crashed-alien-spaceships/id1685702585?i=1000642602121) and [one article](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/), is now [framing](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/) an upcoming Historical Record Report, released by his old office, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
And undoubtedly, the report is now tainted by his views and botched investigation in which he failed to follow up with key witnesses. It lacks credibility now.
The DoD confirmed to me that his recent comments were reviewed by the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR).
They say Dr Kirkpatrick is now a private citizen, despite the fact that he remains an unpaid consultant for the AARO.
[Dr Kirkpatrick, who represents the executive branch as an unpaid consultant, attacked the critical thinking skills of congressional members,](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/) discouraged them from investigating UAP and claimed investigations informed by whistleblowers were based on a ‘whirlwind of tall tales, fabrication and secondhand or thirdhand retellings of the same’.
No whistleblower in their right mind will now approach the AARO, especially with Dr Kirkpatrick still associated with the office. That means one part of its mission in investigating serious allegations regarding UAP is now dead.
The UAPDA attempted to stop the DoD and intelligence community from marking their own homework by providing an independent citizen review board.
That effort was allegedly halted in its tracks by some Congressional members linked heavily to military contractors implicated in potentially illegal UAP-related programs, which stood to lose their crown jewels, mostly through eminent domain language attached to the legislation.
The DoD and intelligence community have now been emboldened to stop the UAP conversation and ignore inconvenient allegations.
Such efforts have been led by Dr Kirkpatrick, [someone placed into the position](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-the-pentagon-really-hiding-crashed-alien-spaceships/id1685702585?i=1000642602121) of AARO’s director by David M. Taylor, at the time Performing the Duties of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security—a person who, according to sources, has a track record of hostility towards the UAP topic. Dr Kirkpatrick revealed this in an interview with Peter Bergen, Vice President for Global Studies and Fellows at New America, a think tank whose funders include the U.S. Department of State, Department of Energy, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin – the two defense contractors [alleged](https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/jeremy-corbell-affirms-us-government-and-defense-contractors-hold-multiple-undamaged-functional-non-human-craft) to possess materials of non-human origin.
There have long been doubts about the credibility of AARO, [dating back to its former inception as AOIMSG](https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/people-vs-pentagon-the-battle-for-ufo-transparency).
[Matthew Pines](https://twitter.com/matthew_pines), a civilian intelligence analyst [commented on X](https://x.com/matthew_pines/status/1723770784139686146?s=20) that a DoD source confided in him that the AARO is ‘“entirely a disinformation activity” designed to “cover and distract” with “no qualms about misleading Congress.”’
Back in October 2022, one anonymous intelligence source [told the Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11373603/New-classified-report-congress-says-HALF-UFO-sightings-properly-explained.html):
‘There are s\*\*\*loads of classified videos that are pretty profound and pretty clear.
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‘They don’t want to talk about this stuff, because they really, really don’t know what the hell they are. That’s the truth.’
But despite an orchestrated effort aided by an army of sceptical commentators and friendly DoD publications, Congress will not give up.
The first reason
*[Read full article at Liberation Times]*