{"id":2861,"date":"2025-08-25T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:26:15","slug":"a-pentagon-ufo-chief-claims-a-secret-crash-retrieval-program-holds-alien-tech-sparking-fears-weve-hidden-the-truth-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/a-pentagon-ufo-chief-claims-a-secret-crash-retrieval-program-holds-alien-tech-sparking-fears-weve-hidden-the-truth-for-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pentagon UFO chief claims a secret crash retrieval program holds alien tech\u2014sparking fears we\u2019ve hidden the truth for decades."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Pentagon\u2019s former chief UFO investigator has revealed a sensitive new government program to recover \u2018alleged alien tech\u2019 in the event of a \u2018shoot down.\u2019 Dr Sean Kirkpatrick \u2014 a longtime CIA scientist who headed the US military\u2019s UFO-chasing All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) \u2014 admitted to the program\u2019s existence when pressed during a new interview. The retrieval program\u2019s protocols were for \u2018any UAP recovery\u2019 involving \u2018everything from balloons to drones to alleged alien tech,\u2019 as Dr Kirkpatrick told podcast host John Michael Godier. In recent years, Pentagon brass, NASA experts and academics have all reframed what were once called \u2018flying saucers\u2019 as \u2018unidentified anomalous phenomena\u2019 (UAP).<\/p>\n

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The revelation is the first time that the US government has officially acknowledged a UAP or UFO retrieval program, despite decades of speculation and whistleblower testimony that America has already been in possession of alien craft for decades. It also comes amid multiple federal investigations into \u2018mothership\u2019 UFOs over key US military sites, releasing hard to identify, much less catch, \u2018drone swarm\u2019 UFOs. This week, the Pentagon\u2019s North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) admitted that US military bases have been plagued as many as 600 so-called \u2018drone\u2019 incursions since 2022, many still unexplained. Classified documents suggest that the new UFO crash retrieval program began in early 2023, with a focus on \u2018response and recovery and material transfer.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Dr Kirkpatrick initiated high-level meetings formalizing AARO\u2019s version of a UFO crash retrieval program in January and February 2023 \u2014 according to the redacted documents released last September via the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). As one scheduling email explained: \u2018The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the disposition of funding within the context of safety and security implications of UAP.\u2019 Establishing \u2018a receiving point\u2019 for any and all recovered UFO materials was one key issue to be addressed, the meeting memo added. \u2018The problem is those types of activities are already covered under Foreign Materiel Collection and Analysis,\u2019 as Dr Kirkpatrick told Godier and listeners to his Event Horizon podcast Thursday.<\/p>\n

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\u2018There\u2019s already a process and procedures in place for many of these things,\u2019 he continued. \u2018So this conversation was really to start [asking]: How do we document that for UAP? And, what kind of procedures do we need to put in place?\u2019 Since at least the dawn of the Cold War, America has had crash retrieval programs, led by the CIA, but comprising all branches of the US military. These programs were set up mainly to acquire Russian and Chinese tech, including the top secret CIA\u2019s salvaging of a nuclear-equipped, sunken Soviet sub in 1974. \u2018Equally important was retrieving US fragments that had landed in foreign nations to prevent the Soviets from recovering and exploiting them,\u2019 according to curator James E. David of the Smithsonian\u2019s National Air and Space Museum.<\/p>\n

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Space Command was only the just one of the branches AARO consulted. Leadership from the White House\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff also weighed in on the UFO recovery effort, including its directorates for intelligence (J2), operations (J3), strategy and policy (J5). \u2018AARO is Congressionally directed to come up with not just standard reporting procedures, but also mitigation and response procedures in the event of a shoot down or a collection of any sort of UAP,\u2019 Dr Kirkpatrick said. \u2018To do that mitigation and response, as well as standardized reporting,\u2019 he added, \u2018will occur through all of the combatant commands.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2018Because they already have people in place that would collect [crashes].\u2019 \u2018Like, if we shot down another Chinese high altitude balloon, it\u2019s that team that would go and collect it, right? It\u2019s those procedures and processes on how it gets notified and how we go and get it.\u2019 Space Command records obtained via FOIA show that Dr Kirkpatrick had meetings to establish AARO\u2019s version of a UFO-specific crash retrieval program on April 10 with Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, Commander of US Northern Command. General VanHerck, who led the mission to takedown the infamous Chinese spy balloon back in February 2023, has also taken a hard stance on domestic UFO cases.<\/p>\n

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\u2018If there are unknown objects within North America,\u2019 he said of the recent wave of baffling drone swarms over US bases, \u2018go out and identify them.\u2019 General VanHerck, who also has a leadership role over NORAD, has pled with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to authorize more electronic eavesdropping equipment to solve the severe national security mysteries involving the drone UFOs. But the general has also acknowledged that strict rules govern the use of this level of espionage tech over US soil. Although Dr Kirkpatrick told Event Horizon\u2019s listeners that he found no evidence that the US government has previously recovered an alien spacecraft via its past crash retrieval programs, several of his predecessors have contradicted his claims.<\/p>\n

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Dr James Lacatski, a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst and missile expert who managed one UFO-centered program from 2008-2012, has claimed that the US not only has recovered alien spacecraft but that officials have gotten inside one. \u2018The United States,\u2019 as Dr Lacatski wrote in a 2023 book on that program, \u2018was in possession of a craft of unknown origin and had successfully gained access to its interior.\u2019 This craft, as he briefed then US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2011, had \u2018no intakes, exhaust, wings, or control surfaces [\u2026] no engine, fuel tanks, or fuel.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Dr Lacatski\u2019s book, \u2018Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations,\u2019 was co-authored with Las Vegas-based investigative reporter George Knapp and biochemist Dr Colm Kelleher. Dr Kelleher had worked alongside Dr Lacatski from the private contractor side of the DIA\u2019s once highly secretive UFO program, the Advanced Weapons System. Application program (AAWSAP). When asked by UFO documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell whether or not he himself had entered this recovered UFO, Dr Lacatski replied: \u2018 I can\u2019t answer that .\u2019 DailyMail.com has reached out to Dr Lacatski for comment and will update this article if he replies.<\/p>\n

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The Pentagon\u2019s former chief UFO investigator has revealed a sensitive new government program to recover \u2018alleged alien tech\u2019 in the event of a \u2018shoot down.\u2019 Dr Sean Kirkpatrick \u2014 a longtime CIA scientist who headed the US military\u2019s UFO-chasing All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) \u2014 admitted to the program\u2019s existence when pressed during a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[1111],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aliens","category-ufo","tag-a-pentagon-ufo-chief-claims-a-secret-crash-retrieval-program-holds-alien-tech-sparking-fears-weve-hidden-the-truth-for-decades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}