By now there should be little doubt that the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, is a purveyor of UFO disinformation.

Exhibit A: Outgoing Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick has suggested that numerous “metallic orbs” might be flying around the world, making unusual maneuvers and such, and that these objects could be extraterrestrial. Fitting neatly into this story line, he has co-authored a research paper proposing that alien motherships could be visiting our solar system and sending “alien probes” to Earth.

Hence, this implies that the metallic orbs could be these alien probes.

The problem is, the supposed “orbs” are probably only balloons, as recently highlighted by a research group that determined one such orb captured on video in the Middle East was likely just a party balloon. (https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/24/isnt-that-a-balloon-deflating-a-dod-ufo-video/)

Dr. Kirkpatrick has further reinforced the bogus extraterrestrial hypothesis by recently proclaiming that UFOs spotted by U.S. Navy pilots are either from adversarial nations or alien planets. 

But there’s an alternative view: The UFOs, notably the most sensational ones that perform seemingly physics-defying maneuvers, are neither foreign nor extraterrestrial. They are products of our own Pentagon, and they have been evolving ever since the end of World War II, when U.S. pilots observed mysterious glowing objects over the European theater.

Some have proposed that these were a product of Nazi Germany. We know that times of war provide a unique catalyst for the development of radically novel technologies. We know that the Nazis brought us Wernher von Braun, who led work to develop Germany’s V-2 ballistic missile and who was a critical force in the design of NASA’s Saturn V moon rocket and the early success of the U.S. space program; the Nazis brought us designs for the first jet-powered flying wing aircraft; the Nazis brought us the first turbine engines and jet aircraft; the Nazis brought us the first operational cruise missile. Of course, along the way they brutally murdered thousands of slave laborers.

It is an ugly fact of history that the United States didn’t seem to have many ethical or moral reservations when it came to employing former Nazi scientists and engineers after the war. We did not hesitate to capitalize on Nazi-era advances in our struggle to establish global dominance and keep pace with the Soviets during the burgeoning Cold War that pitted both nuclear powers against each other. So, there is precedent for Nazi scientists and engineers being embedded into American research and development programs.

Then, according to this “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, after the war, just as von Braun was helping the United States gain space dominance, other Nazi scientists and engineers were helping the Pentagon develop advanced field-propulsion platforms. Call them flying saucers, if you like.

Fast-forward to the year 2023, and these vehicles have been steadily evolving, entirely in the dark with the help of the Pentagon’s thriving “black budget,” which shrouds knowledge of them from Congress, the executive branch, and the public.

When the late, great Sen. Harry Reid launched his investigation into UFOs, this exposed recent UFO encounters by U.S. Navy pilots. But these UFOs weren’t extraterrestrial. They were top-secret U.S. weapons, the knowledge of which is extremely compartmentalized, so much so that even the Navy pilots who encountered them did not have a “need to know.”

So, the UFOs were never extraterrestrial. The entire E.T. hypothesis, therefore, is nothing more than a powerful myth created and reinforced by popular culture and the Pentagon’s own disinformation apparatus.

Why?

Because so long as people, and the media, believe the UFOs are extraterrestrial, they won’t suspect that the Pentagon has achieved a series of propulsion breakthroughs. In this column in The Hill, we see how effective the Pentagon’s ongoing disinformation efforts have been: https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4301944-aliens-or-a-foreign-power-pentagon-ufo-chief-says-someone-is-in-our-backyard/

At any rate, under the terrestrial hypothesis, AARO can’t “get to the bottom” of the ongoing UFO mystery because in doing so it would be exposing top-secret Pentagon weapons.

This may sound too fantastic, but is it any crazier than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, only to crash repeatedly, then to hang out over obscure U.S. military training ranges, inexplicably tormenting the denizens of places like rural Texas?