Wall Street Journal Reveals Pentagon Faked UFO Evidence, Misled Top Officers

​Late on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported ex-AARO administrator Sean Kirkpatrick learned in his time in office that UFOs had been the subject of a Pentagon disinformation campaign for decades, with military offices doctoring photos and seeding fake flying saucer stories to cover up secret research programs and encounters with foreign craft. The Journal also reported that Kirkpatrick concluded that many of the men in the Air Force who claimed knowledge of secret reverse engineering UFO programs were in fact the subject of a “hazing” effort from high-ranking officers who, for decades, had new intelligence agents view doctored UFO photos and sign and NDA after being convinced they were going to study UFOs. Most never learned the program was a joke. (The discovery reportedly shocked Biden-era Director of National Intelligence Avrill Haines, who had a hard time believing it.) AARO does not understand why the deception occurred, speculating it might have been a loyalty test. The paper also reported that the so-called Malmstrom Air Force Base incident, when a “UFO” allegedly shut off nuclear weapons, was actually a Pentagon-sanctioned test using an exotic electromagnetic pulse generator. In short: AARO found everything skeptics always assumed to be true was in fact true, and the UFO phenomenon is mostly smoke and mirrors. In fact, it is worse than skeptics thought, since the self-deluding Pentagon officials ended up doing actual damage by creating a false belief that undermined the ability of the government to understand real, non-alien threats thanks to a self-inflicted wound.

By the way, full disclosure: I spoke with Joel Schectmen, one of the authors of the article, a few months ago when he was working on this story and provided some background information into the UFO cabal orbiting the Pentagon.