The Wall Street Journal threw cold water on any idea of the existence of UFOs, reporting that alien lore has been a disinformation campaign designed to hide rumors of the government’s advanced technology from the public.

According to The Journal, the Pentagon had commissioned a program to investigate UFO phenomena and found that the Pentagon itself had been running disinformation campaigns to mislead the public on the existence of UFOs.

The publication focused in on Sean Kirkpatrick, who was tasked by a “deputy secretary” in the Department of Defense to be the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s, AARO’s, first director. AARO was formed in 2022 to investigate UFOs.

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