Post by auntym on May 12, 2022 15:38:15 GMT -6
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Scientist & intelligence officer Sean Kirkpatrick picked to head the new Pentagon-IC office empowered by Congress to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
by DOUGLAS DEAN JOHNSON / douglasjohnson.ghost.io/author/douglasjohnson/
May 12, 2022
"I have to be able to see and metaphorically hear everything that’s going on between 100 kilometers off the face of the planet to wherever we are, and right now we can’t do that." – Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., April 13, 2021
"Unlike physics, intelligence is not an exact science. But, like systems engineering, there is a lot of art and science mixed together." – Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., 2016
"Brings unconventional thinking through a diverse background to solve some of the Nation's most complex and challenging problems....Change agent with deep experience in startup organizations and major organizational and management realignments." – LinkedIn.com profile for Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., May 10, 2022
WASHINGTON [May 12, 2022, 4:00 PM EDT (8:00 PM GMT)] – Senior Department of Defense and Intelligence Community officials apparently have picked a physicist with decades of experience in the Intelligence Community to serve as director of the recently elevated Pentagon office empowered by Congress to get a grip on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
Multiple Executive Branch branch sources, none able to speak on the record, have affirmed that Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., applied to be the director of the recently created office that the Pentagon hierarchy calls the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), and they say that Dr. Kirkpatrick has been selected to fill that position.
This article is the first public report regarding Dr. Kirkpatrick's apparent selection to head the new UAP office.
The Pentagon has not confirmed this information. My inquiry to Defense Department spokesperson Susan Gough on May 10, 2022, specifically referring to Dr. Kirkpatrick, brought this response: "We have nothing to announce on the AOIMSG at this time." Now, you wouldn't be reading this if I wasn't pretty sure that I have it right – but if I miss the mark, your money back, no questions asked.
I do not know whether Dr. Kirkpatrick is yet formally in place, or whether he will be among the Pentagon officials available for questioning by members of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation of the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) on May 17, 2022, either during the subcommittee's open public hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (which will be the first open congressional hearing on the subject in more than 50 years), or in a closed, classified session that will follow.
I've found no public statement by Dr. Kirkpatrick referring to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as such– neither any reference using that term, nor a comment on any of the well-publicized cases of recent years. However, in interviews and presentations pertaining to space-based security threats, he has emphasized the importance of getting a handle on anything going on over our heads that may pose a threat to national security.
In a LinkedIn.com profile that I reviewed on May 10, 2022 (reproduced below), Dr. Kirkpatrick wrote, "Brings unconventional thinking through a diverse background to solve some of the Nation's most complex and challenging problems....Change agent with deep experience in startup organizations and major organizational and management realignments."
douglasjohnson.ghost.io/director-picked-for-new-pentagon-intelligence-office-to-study-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/
Scientist & intelligence officer Sean Kirkpatrick picked to head the new Pentagon-IC office empowered by Congress to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
by DOUGLAS DEAN JOHNSON / douglasjohnson.ghost.io/author/douglasjohnson/
May 12, 2022
"I have to be able to see and metaphorically hear everything that’s going on between 100 kilometers off the face of the planet to wherever we are, and right now we can’t do that." – Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., April 13, 2021
"Unlike physics, intelligence is not an exact science. But, like systems engineering, there is a lot of art and science mixed together." – Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., 2016
"Brings unconventional thinking through a diverse background to solve some of the Nation's most complex and challenging problems....Change agent with deep experience in startup organizations and major organizational and management realignments." – LinkedIn.com profile for Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., May 10, 2022
WASHINGTON [May 12, 2022, 4:00 PM EDT (8:00 PM GMT)] – Senior Department of Defense and Intelligence Community officials apparently have picked a physicist with decades of experience in the Intelligence Community to serve as director of the recently elevated Pentagon office empowered by Congress to get a grip on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
Multiple Executive Branch branch sources, none able to speak on the record, have affirmed that Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., applied to be the director of the recently created office that the Pentagon hierarchy calls the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), and they say that Dr. Kirkpatrick has been selected to fill that position.
This article is the first public report regarding Dr. Kirkpatrick's apparent selection to head the new UAP office.
The Pentagon has not confirmed this information. My inquiry to Defense Department spokesperson Susan Gough on May 10, 2022, specifically referring to Dr. Kirkpatrick, brought this response: "We have nothing to announce on the AOIMSG at this time." Now, you wouldn't be reading this if I wasn't pretty sure that I have it right – but if I miss the mark, your money back, no questions asked.
I do not know whether Dr. Kirkpatrick is yet formally in place, or whether he will be among the Pentagon officials available for questioning by members of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation of the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) on May 17, 2022, either during the subcommittee's open public hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (which will be the first open congressional hearing on the subject in more than 50 years), or in a closed, classified session that will follow.
I've found no public statement by Dr. Kirkpatrick referring to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as such– neither any reference using that term, nor a comment on any of the well-publicized cases of recent years. However, in interviews and presentations pertaining to space-based security threats, he has emphasized the importance of getting a handle on anything going on over our heads that may pose a threat to national security.
In a LinkedIn.com profile that I reviewed on May 10, 2022 (reproduced below), Dr. Kirkpatrick wrote, "Brings unconventional thinking through a diverse background to solve some of the Nation's most complex and challenging problems....Change agent with deep experience in startup organizations and major organizational and management realignments."
douglasjohnson.ghost.io/director-picked-for-new-pentagon-intelligence-office-to-study-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/