(11-03-2023, 12:41 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: I doubt anything of notable substance got done...
More: AARO Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick Holds an Off-Camera Media Roundtable
Apart from the 'Gameshow/Dude'-style' manner of talking to each other (a lot of so's!), it sounds like
the usual manner of bureaucratic obfuscation to get them to lunch time. Grey phrases like 'broader
public' and the easy badinage regarding a topic that would change many of the world's belief-structures
forever.
"Can we trust you, considering you keep secrets?"
"Yes... we have no secrets at this time"
And where's Grusch...? Oh he's joined the entertainment circuit with his pals.
Next up... How Mr Kirkpatrick spends his weekends in the Hamptons.
It's like this sleight-of-hand announcement, a gobbledygook of words to softly relate that only employees
of the DOD have merit when it comes to witnessing lights in the sky. If only Betty and Barney Hill, the
residents of Phoenix and Levelland had reported their... oh wait, they did.
Quote:DOD Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Office Launches New Reporting ToolU.S DoD:
'The Pentagon launched a new reporting mechanism today for current and former military members,
federal employees and contractors to come forward with direct knowledge of alleged U.S. government
programs related to unidentified anomalous phenomena dating back to 1945.
The information is being collected by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office as part of a congressionally
directed report on historical UAP programs allegedly overseen by the U.S. government.
The Defense Department established AARO in 2022 to investigate mysterious craft operating in air and
space, on land, in the sea or under the sea that are not immediately identifiable and might pose a threat
to national security.
The new reporting form, which will be made available on AARO's website, allows current and former service
members and employees to provide unclassified summary details about programs they may have knowledge
of along with details about their affiliation with the U.S. government and their contact information.
Once that information is reviewed AARO officials may request further details.
"We want to hear from you," said Sean M. Kirkpatrick, the director of AARO. "The information you submit in
the form will be protected. Additionally, any information that you provide in a subsequent interview will be
protected according to its classification."
All information will be safeguarded as personal and confidential, he said.
"By law AARO can receive all UAP-related information including any classified national security information
involving military intelligence or intelligence-related activities of classification, regardless of any restrictive
access controls, special access programs, or compartmented access programs," Kirkpatrick said.
AARO can also receive UAP-related information regardless of where that information originates within the
U.S. government, he said. Kirkpatrick emphasized that no classified information should be disclosed,
however, in the initial form available on AARO's unclassified website.
The new reporting form marks the second phase of AARO's secure reporting mechanism.
In May, the Joint Staff issued guidance to the services and combatant commands on reporting UAP sightings
or encounters that occur during current operations.
The new mechanism for reporting historical programs does not replace previous guidance on current
operational UAP reporting. Kirkpatrick said that while AARO aims to collect information about any potential
UAP-related programs overseen by the U.S. government in the past as part of its congressional mandate,
his office does not currently have evidence that any such programs ever existed.
"We do have a requirement by law to bring those whistleblowers or other interviewees in who think that it
does exist, and they may have information that pertains to that," he said. "We do not have any of that
evidence right now."...'
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