The Sekret Handshake | An Anomalous Contagion
"When people interact with the phenomena and do not treat the phenomena with respect, that’s when we see a higher rate of the Hitchhiker Syndrome."
In the previous edition of this series on the potential involvement of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in the UFO coverup, we explored the work history of its former director Sean Kirkpatrick and how it may be relevant to the reverse engineering of exotic technologies.
Kirkpatrick's employment at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is of particular interest, as well as his attendance of a 2018 Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) briefing on Skinwalker ranch. But most importantly, the patent he obtained under SAIC is the primary indicator that he may have some monetary interest in keeping these technologies secret.
But now let's dive even deeper into these technologies and the shadowy companies behind their development. Perhaps surprisingly, this will eventually lead us back to the 2018 briefing on Skinwalker Ranch — particularly the other subject matter experts in attendance.
Trust the Science
On August 30, 2016, Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge gave what was, in my opinion, one of the most intriguing and revealing interviews in UFO history. Many may take issue with DeLonge's seemingly wild claims, but the truth is that much of what he has communicated to the public, be it through random interviews or his work with To The Stars (TTS), has quietly been corroborated by others who have stepped forward.
In any case, his 2016 interview on Fade to Black with Jimmy Church provided some clues that came directly from one of his scientific advisors at TTS. We will soon discover how this brief clip ties into the larger argument we are exploring.
DeLonge: Let me read you something. I just asked one of my advisors how something that doesn't exist in this dimension as we know it can create a craft that looks very physical and probably is very physical. Do you want me to read the answer?
Church: Yes.
DeLonge: Here it goes. I'm reading something to you straight from the source. Using nanofabrication, atomic layer by atomic layer with durable nanotexturing and quantum entanglement properties. And of course, powered by the polarizable vacuum. The same methods that cryptoterrestrials use.
Does that make sense? There's a way! I just got that, and I was like, okay, got it. There's a way.
"Nanofabrication" should sound familiar, as we spent part one of this article analyzing the technique, along with former AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick's patent under SAIC that employs it.
The patent, titled "Holographic recording and micro/nanofabrication via ultrafast holographic two-photon induced photopolymerization," could be harnessed by the US Air Force — only through contracts won by SAIC, of course — to produce uniquely advanced sensor platforms.
As you may recall, the holographic nature of Kirkpatrick's invention would additionally allow for detailed 3D modeling of existing metamaterials at the nano level. These materials could then be reconstructed using his patented fabrication process to construct prototypes for testing.
This is essentially the definition of advanced reverse engineering, and these methods of engineering would be held exclusively by Kirkpatrick's then-employer, SAIC. But that's not the only potential connection between Kirkpatrick and a possible UFO legacy program.
The message from Tom's advisor from TTS was later discovered to be none other than theoretical physicist and remote viewing pioneer Hal Puthoff. Puthoff has been known for his involvement and research into the UFO subject for decades, writing a paper titled "Engineering the Zero-Point Field and Polarizable Vacuum for Interstellar Flight" for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP).
AAWSAP is now a well-known UAP effort that had been led by Bigelow Aerospace under contract with the Defense Intelligence Agency, and was easily the biggest target of ridicule by AARO within their "historical review."
Despite this brazen and bumbling attempt to discredit their work, polls conducted after the AARO report's release demonstrated that Kirkpatrick and his colleagues were unable to tamp down public interest in UAP. A YouGov survey of US adults from March 10-12 showed that almost two-thirds of American adults agreed that the Department of Defense (DoD) has not been forthcoming on the topic. But I digress.
My point is that Puthoff's reputation is held in high regard by real-life scientists despite what many skeptics consider to be his "questionable" areas of interest. His peer-reviewed scientific publications and long career in intelligence speak for themselves, which makes Kirkpatrick's outright dismissal of AAWSAP's research all the more peculiar, being a scientist with intelligence ties himself.
This brings us to our second and most intriguing connection.
Questionable Motives
Considering DeLonge's more controversial comments surrounding UFOs, some might be surprised to learn that Dr. Puthoff is still on the TTS Advisory Board eight years after Tom read his answer verbatim on "Fade to Black." To me, that in itself says a lot about how he views the emphasis Tom has placed on certain aspects of the phenomenon. It also tells me that he still stands by his comments on nanofabrication relayed by DeLonge to Jimmy Church in 2016.
Only two years later, Dr. Kirkpatrick attended the now-infamous 2018 SASC briefing regarding developments at Skinwalker Ranch. The reader may be surprised to learn that Dr. Hal Puthoff was also in attendance.
With these two men present among the few individuals involved in this meeting that focused on UAP, it strains credulity that both Puthoff's words regarding the nanofabrication of metamaterials and Kirkpatrick's patent under SAIC describing such a technique are mere coincidences. Perhaps not so coincidentally, SAIC is also one of only two defense contractors specifically named by DeLonge in his Sekret Machines series, along with the Lockheed Martin division they purchased.
Let's take it a step further. Although Kirkpatrick's involvement at the 2018 briefing is still somewhat of a mystery, it's quite clear why Puthoff was there as a large part of AAWSAP's research under Bigelow was conducted at Skinwalker Ranch. Being a contributor to the AAWSAP program and with his extensive knowledge of the UFO topic, Puthoff was and is still undoubtedly a subject matter expert—an expert who has been quoted stating the importance of nanofabrication to the engineering of UFO materials.
Considering the little information and large amount of obfuscation we have seen from Kirkpatrick around this meeting, it would not be unfair to extrapolate the potential reason for his presence from his time at SAIC during the late 1990s-2000s. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that SAIC is nowhere to be found on his LinkedIn profile or any of his official military and intelligence biographical profiles provided on US government websites.
Now we come to the question of why he was chosen by DoD leadership to head up the Pentagon's brand new UFO office. Even more pertinent to our discussion, why was he so critical of AAWSAP in AARO's historical review, as demonstrated by their obvious attempt to minimize their work? And why has he continued this disinformation campaign in the media for so long after leaving that position, only announcing its end the same day legislation was introduced that would audit AARO's decision-making processes?
Considering his patent and the knowledge Puthoff surely possesses surrounding its potential relevance to reverse-engineer anomalous craft, one has to wonder if there was a financial incentive for Kirkpatrick in publicly discounting AAWSAP's research through official government channels like the AARO historical review. Even more concerning is the possibility that DoD leadership was aware of this potential detriment to Kirkpatrick's intellectual property rights, and that was precisely the reason he was specifically chosen for the job.
Again, this is all speculation based on the limited information available in the public sphere. Unfortunately, the onus is on Kirkpatrick and the DoD to clear up these ethical questions, which is extremely unlikely if history is any indication.
But the issue of UAP is far from the only concern the US government has with Skinwalker Ranch and its reported high strangeness. The involvement of another member on the briefing team, along with Puthoff and ranch owner Brandon Fugal, may help shed some light on why Kirkpatrick was involved in such an exclusive group.
A Psychic Virus
Perhaps the most fascinating research being performed at Skinwalker Ranch and the Uintah basin at large in recent years is being conducted by Dr. Jim Segala. As the reader might surmise, Dr. Segala is the final presenter on Fugal's team whose presence may shed some light on Kirkpatrick's attendance.
I first heard of Segala's research in an article written by molecular biologist and former AAWSAP scientist Dr. Colm Kelleher. Dr. Kelleher expanded upon his previous book Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, which was co-authored by journalist George Knapp and former AAWSAP project manager Dr. James Lacatski in Edge Science magazine.
In his piece, Kelleher writes extensively about the phenomenon known as the hitchhiker effect. Something akin to a paranormal virus, the hitchhiker effect appears to latch on to visitors of the ranch and induce the supernatural experiences the property is known for regardless of their location.
Kelleher details several bizarre high strangeness events at distant locations and Segala's research into them.
This feeling of “bringing something home” and the subsequent person to person transmissibility of paranormal phenomena, some of which can last for years, has been named the Hitchhiker Effect.
In an April 2022 interview, Skinwalker Ranch research team member Dr. Jim Segala addressed the Hitchhiker phenomenon: “Over the past five years, it has been our experience that when people interact with the phenomena and do not treat the phenomena with respect, that’s when we see a higher rate of the Hitchhiker Syndrome.
Symptoms experienced by people range from acute neurological injuries to chronic blood disease. Those who have told us that they have brought home a souvenir often have some type of illness as well as family members. The data again comes from years of tracking and collecting data from those who have come forward.”
Segala’s description mirrors many of the Hitchhiker symptoms experienced by victims and documented during the AAWSAP program and provides additional details on the medical sequelae of the Hitchhiker Effect.
The medical aspect of these phenomena are nothing short of disturbing, and likely why highly credentialed individuals involved in biology such as Kelleher and Stanford immunologist Dr. Garry Nolan have been asked to assist with certain cases.
But Kelleher insists that the hitchhiker effect is not exclusive to the ranch, nor confined to any one location at all.
But the Hitchhiker Effect is not unique to Skinwalker Ranch. The AAWSAP research team found that even close encounters with UFOs in locations unrelated to Skinwalker Ranch produced a version of the Hitchhiker Effect. This was not always the case but did occur especially when the experiencers were followed and regularly interviewed by the AAWSAP team over long periods of time.
For example, biotechnologist Ron Becker and his daughter were travelling outside Bend Oregon in May 2005 when his daughter noticed three blue-colored objects moving randomly in a field close to the highway.
The objects quickly flew towards the vehicle, one went in front, one went through the car and flew across the dashboard, and the third entered Ron Becker’s shoulder, maneuvered through his thoracic area and exited his shoulder as his horrified daughter watched. Ron Becker subsequently came down with a constellation of medical symptoms.
If UAP can cause the hitchhiker effect, or at least some version of the "infection," that would obviously be of great concern to anyone involved with a government UFO program. The fact that Dr. Segala, an expert who has spent the better part of a decade focused specifically on the victims of this bizarre contagion, was part of the briefing team at the 2018 SASC presentation is notable in this context.
But once one examines the full extent of Kirkpatrick's knowledge on subjects applicable to Skinwalker Ranch outside of just UFO physics, the full picture starts to come together.
Blood Crystals
It is worth emphasizing one detail surrounding Kirkpatrick's recruitment by the Department of Energy as a teenager, which we covered in part one of this article. The reader should note that his invention, which caught the attention of those within the classified world, wasn't just about lasers and the physics surrounding them, but also the possibilities it provided for biological research.
In the article cited previously on Kirkpatrick's admission to the DOE's High School Honors Research Program, the major applications for his idea were to "speed up blood typing with the use of lasers."
Kirkpatrick took an idea from a science teacher three years ago—"Why not try something with crystals?"—and turned it into a practical reality. His laser scanning machine, molded from a personal computer and spare parts, won him top honors at the state Science Fair at the University of Georgia in April and eventually landed him national recognition. It could revolutionize two industries, he said.
"One use would be in the identification of crystals, like diamonds," he said. "A jeweler would be able to use my machine and identify various jewels. Each gem has its own molecular structure, so they could identify one by its own specific fingerprint. This could really change the area of security."
The other practical use still on the drawing board could significantly reduce the time needed for blood typing.
"It could save lives," he said.
"My machine is portable, so ambulances could carry it and get a blood sample in 10 minutes... instead of taking a sample back to the hospital and waiting an hour or more."
Kirkpatrick said he hopes to have that phase of his as-yet-unnamed machine operational "by the time I graduate next year."
But, lacking the estimated $10,000 to obtain a federal patent, he fears his idea could be stolen and copied by someone else.
"And then I'd be left without a dime," he said.
Kirkpatrick's invention obviously showed great promise in multiple fields of study. As I emphasized in part one, none of my criticism or speculation about his motives is a knock on his scientific competence. It is precisely his genius and work ethic that caught the eye of one of America's most highly sensitive national security agencies, the Department of Energy.
If we consider the applications of Kirkpatrick's invention, his involvement with the 2018 Skinwalker Ranch briefing starts to make a little more sense. As one of the presenters, Dr. Jim Segala, notes in his writing, a major negative biological effect experienced by those who visited the ranch or came into close contact with UAP is "chronic blood disease."
Certainly, advancements in his concept had been made in the 32 years between his acceptance into the DOE program in 1986 and that briefing in 2018. I think it's safe to assume that a laser device capable of speeding up blood typing would have relevance to identifying any anomalous catalyst inducing the chronic blood disease experienced by victims of the hitchhiker effect.
Efforts to locate a patent for this blood typing device have proven fruitless, suggesting that the DOE may have brought in Kirkpatrick to obtain the technology for themselves. Kirkpatrick's involvement in the classified world—specifically his employment by SAIC for years—indicates his appreciation for the protection of intellectual property by the military-industrial complex. Perhaps he was more than happy to give up his high school science project in return for more lucrative opportunities ahead.
Regardless, it is becoming quite clear that Kirkpatrick's knowledge of biology was essential in getting him into the deepest corners of classified scientific research, and this is demonstrated even more concretely by his later work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Subject Matter Experts
Tying all of this together is a Department of Energy report conducted by Sandia National labs back in December 2017, interestingly around the same timeframe as the SASC briefing we have been discussing at length. The National Nuclear Security Administration, under contract by DoE, published a paper titled "Reducing Future International Chemical and Biological Dangers."
Out of fourteen people throughout the entire US government, Dr. Kirkpatrick was chosen as a subject matter expert on this topic. Having nothing to do on its face with space, physics, or any of the qualifications that supposedly made him fit for his job at AARO, his expertise in the area of "chemical and biological dangers" should raise some eyebrows considering the plethora of biological effects reported by AAWSAP and others around the ranch and beyond.
Contained in the report is a subsection that lists "Notable Chemical and Biological Subfields." It is here we can attempt to pinpoint exactly the expertise Kirkpatrick had obtained over his years working in classified programs. It is notable that the introduction of this section places an almost complete emphasis on synthetic biology.
Synthetic Biology “combines the investigative nature of biology with the constructive nature of engineering” to “make living matter fully programmable” Synthetic biology includes using genetics to design and synthesize useful organisms, biomolecules, chemistries, materials, cryptographies, and platforms.
Synthetic biologic systems will no longer be limited to the evolutionarily selected design space amplifying the potential opportunity space for de novo designs with unquantified and unknown interactions in the natural environment.
It is hard not to read into the use of the word "biologics" in this context, as that term was made popular by UFO whistleblower David Grusch during his congressional testimony a little over a year ago. Biologics was the term he used to describe the remains of UAP pilots that had been recovered crash retrieval operations.
It is worth noting that Kirkpatrick's previous employer, SAIC, was almost exclusively trusted to handle some of the most highly sensitive government cleanup operations when it came to national security and hazardous materials, including the Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster.
Considering SAIC's long involvement in nuclear programs, it's probably safe to say the company is well aware of UAP incursions into our nuclear sites and the biological effects of exposure to radiation. Their long involvement in these clean up projects could easily translate to the retrieval of crashed anomalous craft and the secrecy that entails.
Returning to the report, topics in the section detailing potential subfields include genetics, bioinformatics, chemical synthesis, biocircuitry, tissue engineering, wearables and implantables, biomimicry, natural pathogens, materials science, neuroscience, and nanotechnology, among many others.
Assessing where Kirkpartrick fits in is anyone's guess, but further research has led me to conclude that his relevance has to do specifically with biomimicry. His research papers mentioned in part one of this article show his contributions in these areas in relation to sensor arrays based on biological organisms.
In part three of this series, we will dive deeply into what these topics mean for the more paranormal aspects of the ranch, how they all relate to the reverse-engineering of UAP, and why SAIC is likely the place to look for at least some of the answers to the questions asked by DeLonge in his Sekret Machines series.
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