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The Government's Former UFO Hunter Has a Lot to Say

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Scientific American

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

For the last decade, reports of UFO sightings have filled headlines and news broadcasts, and some of these have from a surprising place—the Pentagon. Former defense officials have made a number of claims about, and released videos of, strange sightings made by military pilots. These days, the objects are officially called “UAPs”—unidentified anomalous phenomena. But regardless of the new branding, Congress has demanded answers on them, especially after one former official this summer claimed that he believed that the U.S. possessed “nonhuman” spacecraft and possibly their “dead pilots.” We talk to the former intelligence official and physicist, Sean Kirkpatrick, who until December headed the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon office that Congress told to find some answers to all this. He recently published an op-ed in Scientific American called  "Here's What I Learned as the U.S. Government's UFO Hunter". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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For the past decade reports of

0:33.4

UFO sightings have filled headlines and news broadcasts and some of these have come

0:37.5

from a surprising place. The Pentagon. Former defense officials have made a

0:41.6

number of claims about and released videos of strange sightings made by military pilots.

0:46.0

These days the objects are officially called UAP, unidentified anomalous phenomena.

0:52.0

But regardless of the new branding, Congress has demanded answers on these objects,

0:56.0

especially after one former official this summer claimed that he believed that the U.S. possessed

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non-human spacecraft and possibly their dead pilots.

1:05.0

We're talking today to the former intelligence official and physicist Sean Kurt Patrick,

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who until December headed the Pentagon office that the Congress told to find some answers to all this.

1:14.8

He recently published an op-ed in Scientific American called

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Here's what I learned as the US government's UFO hunter. UFO Hunter. Hi Sean, welcome to the podcast.

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Thanks, Dan.

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I'm glad to be here.

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Can you talk a little bit about your office's search through past records?

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