Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Department of Energy national laboratory in Tennessee. Hired Sean Kirkpatrick as chief technology officer for defense and intelligence programs immediately after his December 2023 departure from AARO.
In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "aaro". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.
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named it under oath as one of three Department of Energy sites he says appear to be under surveillanceUnidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truthprinted p. 47 · PDF p. 51Caveat READ THIS BESIDE MICHAEL GOLD ON THE SAME PANEL, printed page 31 of the same hearing: "because we have got more cameras, more monitoring of national security, we do not know how extensive UAP activity may be over civilian areas." That is sensor bias, and it is the strongest honest objection to reading this clustering as a fact about where UAP are rather than a fact about where the sensors are. It was raised in the same room, on the same day, by a sworn witness, and it travels with this claim.
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named it as a sensitive site under apparent surveillancesame document as the row aboveprinted p. 47 · PDF p. 51 checked against the page
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joined as CTO for defense and intelligence programs immediately after leaving AAROOfficial government / corporate service records
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Federally Funded Research and Development Center. is an FFRDC; administrator UT-Battelle LLC, sponsor Department of Energy Source: NSF/NCSES Master Government List of FFRDCs, February 2026 list, read 2026-08-21 by web fetch (third provenance grade - not rendered and read by eye).