(Daily Mail) The head of the government’s UFO office warned of the ‘potentially ubiquitous presence’ of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) flying over US airspace just weeks before a suspected spy balloon and three other suspicious objects were shot down by American jets.
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s newly formed All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), warned of unidentified Anomalous Phenomena’ flying over the US in January
DailyMail.com has obtained a slide deck from a presentation by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), given at a conference on January 11.
Kirkpatrick’s presentation warned of ‘threats to the immediate safety of US citizens and Government facilities’, and said that the military are finding unidentified anomalous phenomena ‘most often in the vicinity of US military facilities and operating areas’.
One presentation slide says that ‘safety and security risks of UAP heighten US Government awareness and drives research and mitigation efforts’.
DailyMail.com obtained a slides from Kirkpatrick’s January 11 presentation which showed the steps AARO was taking to ensure UAP ‘are effectively and efficiently detected, tracked, analyzed, and managed’
Kirkpatrick’s presentation warned of ‘threats to the immediate safety of US citizens and Government facilities’
The report highlights recognition that UAP present ‘complex hazards and threats across service, regional, and domain boundaries’
The comments have taken on a new urgency following the takedown by sidewinder missile of four objects that entered US airspace over the past two weeks.
The first has been identified by US officials as a 200-ft Chinese spy balloon carrying surveillance equipment the size of a jetliner. It was shot out of the sky off South Carolina on February 4.
The other three UAPs – government speak for what most people call UFOs – were taken down over far northern Alaska, Canada’s Yukon territory and Lake Huron.
These three smaller objects remain officially unidentified, and in a press conference Sunday US Air Force General Glen VanHerck said the military had not ruled out an extraterrestrial origin – though intelligence officials say they are highly skeptical of that.
‘We’re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason,’ VanMerck said, adding the Air Force is still unsure how the three objects stayed aloft, as their propulsion systems are currently unknown.
The slides obtained by DailyMail.com are from Kirkpatrick’s presentation on UAP given to the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on January 11 in Washington DC.
The presentation focused on how AARO is working with other agencies to ensure ‘unidentified, anomalous objects are effectively and efficiently detected, tracked, analyzed, and managed,’ and called on civilian pilots to help by reporting strange sightings in the sky.
‘The potentially ubiquitous presence of UAP defines the national-security implications and drives the broad range of stakeholders and demand for rigorous scientific understanding of and intelligence on phenomena,’ the slides said.
‘Consequence of UAP in the vicinity of strategic capabilities is high, potentially threatening strategic deterrence and safety of civil society.’
One slide said his office is involved in ‘UAP detection, tracking, mitigation, and recovery’
AARO also called on civilian pilots to help by reporting strange sightings in the sky
The report added that the DoD is ‘strengthening observations and reporting capabilities near US strategic capabilities and critical infrastructure’.
Kirkpatrick, a decorated physicist and intelligence official, also included one intriguing bullet point on his slides suggesting that AARO aimed to ‘recover’ downed UAP.
The slide said his office is involved in ‘UAP detection, tracking, mitigation, and recovery’.
According to the 2021 law which created AARO, the DoD must ‘rapidly respond to, and conduct field investigations of, incidents involving unidentified aerial phenomena under the direction of the head of the Office’.
But DoD spokeswoman Susan Gough declined to reveal to DailyMail.com whether AARO has been involved in investigating the four incidents this month.
A map of where the Chinese spy balloon and three additional objects were shot down by military planes since February 4
