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And Kirkpatrick has been pushing Americans not to believe in UFOs. When he took over AARO it was a sudden U-turn. Why would the Pentagon make him the head of AA

And Kirkpatrick has been pushing Americans not to believe in UFOs. When he took over AARO it was a sudden U-turn. Why would the Pentagon make him the head of AARO if he was going to go against their UFO narrative?

charintstr 1y ago
Yeah AARO has been known to be pro-Pentagon for awhile now with Kirkpatrick playing role of chief misinformer. It looks like this is his counter play to Grusch and the NJ UAP sightings
jl6 1y ago
The article seems to imply that UFO disinformation was a previous strategy that they are trying to move away from. Plausibly it went too far, causing a backlash against UFOlogists, making pilots wary of reporting genuine anomalies for fear of being labelled a wacko. If you suspect your enemies are flying new capabilities, you want your people to be reporting it.
- hackyhacky 1y ago
  Alternatively, there is no change of strategy. After all, what better way to make people believe in UFOs than to propagate government propaganda claiming that previous propaganda supporting UFOs was a ruse? Clearly they are just hiding the truth.
- BugheadTorpeda6 1y ago
  Yep. That's my impression as well. It makes sense and seems like a good move. The whole thing was silly in the first place and it's not like almost everybody that has bothered to look into it didn't already suspect it was cooked up bullshit.