Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending

Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of the all-domain anomaly resolution office, blames core group' of government workers

Conspiracy theorists working for and within the US government are perpetuating myths about UFOs that millions of taxpayer dollars are then spent looking into, a self-licking ice cream cone", according to the Pentagon's former chief investigator of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).

Sean Kirkpatrick made the claim in a podcast this week after stepping down last month as the first director of the defense department's all-domain anomaly resolution office (Aaro). It was set up in 2022 to collate military reports of UAP sightings and to be more transparent about what the government knows.