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Sean Kirkpatrick

2022-07-20what this date marks is not recorded

Laser and materials physicist (PhD, University of Georgia) whose career ran through AFRL, the CIA's National Reconnaissance Office and Directorate of Science & Technology, DIA, US Strategic Command, the National Security Council, and US Space Command before becoming AARO's first director (2022-2023); publicly disputed David Grusch's crash-retrieval claims. After leaving AARO, joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as chief technology officer for defense and intelligence programs, and later joined WestExec Advisors, the national-security consultancy founded by former Obama officials including Antony Blinken - a widely cited case of the Pentagon-to-industry revolving door. In a January 2024 Scientific American op-ed, said he'd found no evidence of aliens and attributed the disclosure narrative to "circular reporting" from "a small group of interconnected believers... with possibly less than honest intentions."

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "aaro", "crash-retriev". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

5 of 20 connections resolve to a document you can open. 2 carry no citation at all. 2 were tested against a document we hold and deliberately not bound.

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All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO): a Duality in Mission Regarding UAPs (Sean Kirkpatrick)already cited above
named in the title
Hearing to Receive Testimony on the Mission, Activities, Oversight, and Budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office - stenographic transcriptalready cited above
named on a page we have read · p. 2
…come to order. I would first like to thank our witness, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, for testifying here and in today's earlier closed session,…

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2 corrections to this record

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Sean Kirkpatrick → Anna Paulina Luna
she called him a "liar"; he later criticized her from his new DOE post
she called him "a documented liar" in her opening statement as chairwoman
The first half is carried verbatim and the second is nowhere in this hearing - DOE is not mentioned. Printed 2, Luna presiding: "the former AARO director known as Sean Kirkpatrick attacked our witnesses and members on this Committee. It should be noted that he is a documented liar."
Sean Kirkpatrick → Senate Armed Services AARO Hearing (2023)
testified under oath as AARO director
testified as AARO director
The complete stenographic transcript of this hearing contains the words oath, sworn, swear and affirm exactly zero times in 50 pages. No oath was administered.