When listening to the hearing, you may note that it sounds like Chairwoman Luna repeatedly incorrectly refers to the former AARO Director as "Kilpatrick" - as opposed to his actual surname "Kirkpatrick".
Initially we thought we didn't hear her correctly, but then we found that C-SPAN.org's closed captioning agrees:
- United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets
- Hearing: Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection
- Full Hearing Video - C-SPAN.org
- Retrieved 2025-09-10
And to deepen this mystery further, we also found that the Chairwoman's speech has the typo "Kirpatrick".
- United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets
- Press Release: Luna Opens Hearing on Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency
- Retrieved 2025-09-10
Depending on how you squint or how good your eyesight is, we understand that "Kir" might look like "Kil" - depending on the font type and size.
Perhaps the Chairwoman needs glasses or a better staffer writing the speech?
And/or maybe, like many, perhaps they are simply trying to forget the man?
Attention to detail does matter, so let's hope they get it right on the subpoena!
If you are reading this Mrs. Luna, regardless of how we jest above, we really do appreciate you, so thank you!
NOTE: We will use the correct spelling of "Kirkpatrick".
Recently, the former AARO director known as Sean Kirkpatrick attacked our witness and members on this committee.
It should be noted that he is a documented liar and brings into question what his purpose at AARO really was if it was not to follow up on investigations and disclose his findings to Members of Congress.
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A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Chris Mellon, described a report published by ARRO that "found no evidence that any USG investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology" as "the most error-ridden and unsatisfactory government report I can recall reading during or after decades of government service".
Mellon further noted that this was the first AARO report submitted to Congress without the Director of National Intelligence's sign-off and seemingly excluded input from "any of the scholars or experts who have studied and written extensively on this topic as would normally be the case in another field."
Mellon determined that the report failed to fulfill the congressional mandate under which it was required, omitted entire agencies with "known investigations or activities relating to UAP," and omitted any discussion of efforts to hide classified or unclassified information about UAP.
Such efforts were unaddressed by the report despite the existence of agency records and investigations concerning them, including at US Customs and Border Protection.
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The statement AARO has made is "scientific evidence of extraterrestrials".
"scientific evidence" requires a scientific control.
"extraterrestrials", an entity on another planet.
The only way to scientifically prove "extraterrestrial" is we have to go to that planet, acquire technology, bring it back, and compare it to what we have here.
That statement - "AARO found no scientific evidence of extraterrestrials" is basically, I don't want to call it a psyop, but a misrepresentation - because we do have things.
But making that statement is not technically a lie - it's a misrepresentation of the full truth.
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I know what I've seen, I know what I know, and I know it's true.
So any agency that's going to go public and try and manipulate the public perception of this subject in such a way that it is negative when I know the truth about it, is why I had extreme reservations with it
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There was a guy named Bob Jacobs who was a lieutenant attached to Vandenberg in 1964.
His unit would record missile tests - they recorded all of them.
On one of this particular tests, a UFO comes out of nowhere, zaps what looks like a laser beam at what would have been a nuclear dummy, a nuclear weapon, and disabled it.
And he is called into the commander's office.
Two guys in suits clipped that film footage out that shows the UFO, and he's ordered to never talk about it.
He comes forward to AARO - he heeds the call, thinking he's doing his duty as an American to tell that story.
And they completely dismissed him.
They made up a story that they had tracked down the original footage, and there was nothing like that in it.
Well, there was no original footage - it had been taken away the day the footage was recorded.
He's deeply disappointed.
People like Bob Salas, who had worked at a nuclear ICBM base, who saw UFOs flying over the base and these missile silos were taken down - he went to AARO too and was completely disregarded.
It almost looks like AARO operated as a counterintelligence operation to get people to come in, tell their stories, and then discredit all of them.
I can't imagine that any whistleblower or witness will ever go to AARO again because of what happened under the first director, who's now long gone, but still seems to act as the spokesperson for that organization.
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And I would say, I would say, Madam Chair, maybe at some point we need to really dig deep into aaro and i would encourage...
Oh, I'd be happy, to send maybe a subpoena to Mr. Kirkpatrick.
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