Sean M. Kirkpatrick

Sean M. Kirkpatrick is a laser and materials physicist and currently director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office at the United States Department of Defense.[1]

Kirkpatrick was born in Columbus, Georgia and studied physics at the University of Georgia, where he received his BS in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of William Dennis. His doctoral research was focused on nonlinear and nonequilibrium phonon dynamics of rare earth doped fluoride crystals.[2]

Kirkpatrick conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and at the United States Naval Research Laboratory with a National Research Council Fellowship.[3] He joined the Air Force Research Laboratory in 1997 and moved to the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003.[4]

In 2010, the University of Georgia Department of Physics & Astronomy created a Sean M. Kirkpatrick award for outstanding graduate research in his honor.[5]

In 2023, Kirkpatrick and Avi Loeb released a manuscript on the physical constraints of hypothetical alien spaceships existing in the solar system.[6][7]

References
  1. "USD(I&S) Ronald Moultrie and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick Media Roundtable on the All-domain Anoma". U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  2. "Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick – Symposium365". Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  3. Brott, Lawrence L.; Naik, Rajesh R.; Pikas, David J.; Kirkpatrick, Sean M.; Tomlin, David W.; Whitlock, Patrick W.; Clarson, Stephen J.; Stone, Morley O. (2001). "Ultrafast holographic nanopatterning of biocatalytically formed silica". Nature. 413 (6853): 291–293. doi:10.1038/35095031. ISSN 0028-0836.
  4. "Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick - Potomac Officers Club". potomacofficersclub.com. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  5. "The University of Georgia Department of Physics and Astronomy newsletter, 2010 Fall" (PDF).
  6. "Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (PDF).
  7. Osborne, Hannah (2023-03-25). "Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests". Space.com. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
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