Former Top U.S. Astrophysicist Says There’s "No Proof of UFOs Here"

Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of the US Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which investigates unidentified flying objects, said people expecting evidence of alien life on Earth may be disappointed, Graham Kates reported for CBS News.

Kirkpatrick said his office declassified as much as it could, but no proof of extraterrestrial life emerged.

“There are going to be unsatisfied people,” he told CBS News. “You’re going to have a bunch of people who are going to continue to cry conspiracy. They’re going to say there’s a cover-up.”

Kirkpatrick views former President Trump’s order as a “distraction for the administration.”

A physicist, he led AARO from July 2022 to Dec. 1, 2023, and was tasked with investigating unidentified aerial or anomalous phenomena.

What he found ranged from “hazing” within the Air Force to what he described as “deceptions” designed to conceal secret defense programs. Kirkpatrick said his office declassified as much as it could, but no proof of extraterrestrial life emerged.

“Nothing would have made me happier in that job than to have discovered alien technology and rolled it out,” Kirkpatrick said. “I don’t expect to see anything new.”

While he believes life likely exists somewhere in the universe, he said the probability that extraterrestrial intelligent life is currently on Earth is “little to none.”