The Answers Were Removed

Pentagon leadership had told Arrow to remove all of the resolution language and put these cases out as unresolved, letting, and I quote, the people make up their own mind. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick is claiming the Pentagon ordered his former UFO office to strip its own conclusions out of UFO cases before they reached the public. So that would then imply that some of the files millions of people are studying on war.gov slash UFO may carry an unresolved label, even though investigators had already reached an answer and Congress may have heard those answers in private briefings. That would mean the public and lawmakers are are looking at two different versions of the same cases. Hey UFOlogers, I'm Christina Gomez and this is your UFO News Update. Kirkpatrick told Fox News that Arrow resolved many of the cases that later appeared in the Pursue UFO files, and that he briefed several of them to Congress with the answers attached. According to him, Pentagon leadership then directed Arrow to strip out that resolution language and release the cases as unresolved. And put these cases out as unresolved, letting, and I quote, the people make up their own mind. Which is the absolute worst thing that you could do because all you've done is continue to just feed the flames of conspiracy with a whole bunch of nonsense. Kirkpatrick didn't give a date. for the order or name the officials behind it. And this is important because he retired from Arrow in December of 2023, more than two years before the first Pursue batch went live in May of 2026. A Department of War official told Fox News that the department is not offering any assessments of the files as a whole or by any single file. So Americans can reach their own conclusions. And the department is not denying the hands-off approach. It calls that approach the actual goal. The same department response also settled a question about the Black Triangle report. And we'll get into that a little bit later. But most people read the word unresolved on a government file and assume investigators found something they could not explain. But correct me if I'm wrong. Patrick defines it much more narrowly. When we say a case is unresolved, it generally means there is no data or there is insufficient data to actually analyze it. And so you can't conclude one way or the other. We can tell you what it likely is based on similar cases, but unless there's actual data that you can get into the raw data streams and analyze, compressed video off of the internet does not count. Then you can't conclude something so it remains, quote, unresolved. He treats unidentified as a separate term. In his definition, unidentified means investigators can see and describe an object and have data to support that description, but do not know what it is. His example is the object shot down over North America in February of 2023 after the Chinese surveillance balloon was discovered. Those started as unidentified before investigators concluded that at least one of the several Under his own definition, a case Arrow resolved should never carry the unresolved label. So should the Pentagon publish Arrow's original conclusions next to each file or release the raw records and let the public judge them? Well, let me know your thoughts in the comments on that. Kirkpatrick claims he built Arrow from the ground up, and he was named its first director in July of 2022, testified before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee in April of that year, and the Pentagon credited his office with investigating more than 800 cases during his time there. His team also did the research behind Arrow's March 2024 historical report, which found no evidence that the government had recovered or reverse-engineered alien technology. But they only released Volume 1, and they're very behind on Volume 2. It has not been released yet. Many of the cases now coming out of Pursue moved through the system he set up. And that makes him one of the few people who can say what investigators concluded before those files even went public. He has also been the most visible government voice pushing back on whistleblower claims. In July of 2023, he publicly criticized the House hearing where David Grush testified. In a January 2024 opinion piece for Scientific American, he wrote what he saw as a decline in critical thinking around this subject, and that played a big part in his decision to leave. He has not gone quiet since retiring. He sat for the UAP Files podcast in May of 2026, and in October, he told Paradigm that he had worked with Lockheed Martin executives to trace claims that the company held alien spacecraft. And that a congressional staffer once pressed him to steer millions of dollars towards three people tied to UAP investigations and aerospace startups, which both were covered in great detail on UFO News Updates right here. And if you missed any of those, make sure to subscribe to stay in the know on the latest UFO news. Kirkpatrick was responding to the Black Triangle report from the seventh batch release. And in June of 2026, two federal special agents reported a silent matte black triangle with no visible engines rising above a ridgeline near a sensitive site in the western U.S. According to the Arrow memo, it hovered for about 20 seconds, then dropped toward a canyon and then vanished behind the terrain. The Department of War has now confirmed that the images released with the report are illustrations and not actual photographs. No photo and no sensor data have been made public on that particular report. The two government accounts are also conflicting because Arrow describes more than 30 seconds of activity, while the FBI puts the whole sighting to about three seconds. Kirkpatrick argues that the agent's badges don't even settle it. Like, just because they have a badge, just because they have a title, doesn't always mean you should trust their witness testimony. There's a lot of people that like to point to folks as being credible witnesses and therefore their testimony must be taken at face value. And that is a classic case of authority bias, which absolutely invalidates the argument because just because somebody is from the FBI or they're from the government does not mean that they... And just because they say something is so that it is true. And that argument raises a question about Aero itself. If a government badge doesn't make a witness more reliable, then a citizen's sighting should carry the same weight as the agent's, right? Yet Aero still does not accept sighting reports from the general public. The reporting form launched under Kirkpatrick in 2023 and was limited to current and former government employees, service members, and contractors with knowledge of government programs. At the time, Kirkpatrick promised a public option in a later phase. Near three years on, Aero's website still says that option is not available and that civilian pilots are directed to report through the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration. Kirkpatrick's answer would likely come back to data, and in his view, a story without censor reading cannot be analyzed, no matter who tells it. But closing the door to public reports means many sightings never reach the office at all. And then he offers one possible explanation for triangle sightings in general. There's current advanced technology developments in the aerospace world. That are analogous to the F-117 back in the day when that was first seen and cited as being a triangular shaped vehicle. The F-117 stealth fighter jet flew in 1981, but the Air Force didn't acknowledge it until 1988. A 1997 CIA history report went further, estimating that more than half of UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were tied to secret spy flights such as the U-2. Aero sorted every report into three groups. Foreign adversary technology, ordinary objects that censors misread, or something extraterrestrial. Kirkpatrick places almost every case his office reviewed in the second group. A few were referred to as national security issues, and one matched the alien explanation. And yet, several questions are still unanswered. Which Pursue cases did Arrow solve? And who ordered the answers to be removed? And will the lawmakers who sat through those briefings push to make the original conclusions public? After hearing Kirkpatrick's claim, do you trust the unresolved label on the Pursue files more or less? Tell me your thoughts in the comments. My video on the 7th Pursue release covers the June 2026 Black Triangle memo when it first came out, along with the Walter Hott Roswell affidavit found inside a 2008 BASC planning document. So make sure to watch this video next. I'm Christina Gomez. That's it for today. I will see you again next time for another UFO News update. Be safe and remember, keep your eyes on the skies.