I asked Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the Pentagon's UFO office, to respond to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) announcing yet another Congressional UFO hearing featuring dubious UFO personalities.
Kirkpatrick pulled no punches as usual. His comments are below.
First, some backstory context for those unfamiliar:
Over the last few years, Luna and her Scooby Doo team in Congress have been hunting UFOs and "interdimensional beings" on the taxpayer's dime.
Luna says she views UFOs from "a Christian perspective" and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), one of Luna's saucer-hunting cohorts, believes UFOs could be "angels" or "messengers of God".
Luna and her Congressional team have brought on several "witnesses" to testify about UFOs but these witnesses were mostly grifters and charlatans from the UFO entertainment industry who have books, podcasts, TV shows or movies to sell.
These "witnesses" provided lots of spooky stories, but zero evidence. It's been an all-around waste of taxpayer resources.
Undeterred (and unchallenged by the media), Luna has now invited George Knapp, the final boss of UFO grifting, as a "witness" to testify at her new UFO hearing on Sept 9th.
Knapp, the host of a late-night paranormal radio show, the author of several UFO books, and the star of a recent Netflix alien series, is a long-time celebrity in the UFO world.
Joining Knapp on Sept 9th as Congressional "witnesses" will be other UFO storytellers who've either appeared on Knapp's dubious UFO podcast or who are directly associated with Knapp.
It's going to be the George Knapp show - the final scene of a Hollywood movie years in the making.
And I mean that literally... Hollywood is currently in production on a movie about Knapp's life.
With red flags abound, I reached out to Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of AARO, the Pentagon's "UFO office", for comment.
For 18 months, Kirkpatrick investigated all these UFO claims and released a damning report in 2024 debunking the main UFO personalities and most of their claims as inaccurate, misinformed or completely fraudulent.
The news media, of course, mostly ignored Kirkpatrick's report, choosing to instead continue publishing salacious alien clickbait nonsense.
Here's what Kirkpatrick has to say about Rep. Luna's upcoming UFO hearing:
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SEAN KIRKPATRICK:
If Luna and her “Lunatics” want to continue to parade charlatans and grifters in front of an audience to satisfy her need for playhouse politics, then the American people should demand accountability of all the wasted taxpayer money and Congressional time she has derailed from more serious issues facing this country.
Clearly she has been working quietly with these pseudo scientists and attention seekers to script a hearing and then launch it as a surprise onto the world, possibly to distract or more likely because that’s all she is qualified to do.
In the face of international crises, where is the accountability? Where is DOGE when there is a legitimate target of fraud waste and abuse in Congress? Where is the DOJ investigation into the Congressional misappropriation and corruption associated with trying to funnel money to these grifters and actively obstruct legitimate work by the DoD and IC?
It’s a disgrace to the Congress and the US government and only serves to provide reality TV.
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