File
AARO records — 1989 Russian laser-weapon investigation
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 1989 / requested 2020s
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Request
Records of a 1989 Russian laser-weapon investigation described in a WSJ piece sourced to Kirkpatrick.
Outcome
AARO claimed no record of any such investigation. Hume: the sole source is Dr K; AARO appears to be distancing from him.
Document vs. interview conflict inside AARO's own history.
Names on this file
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick
Former director, AARO
Hume says Kirkpatrick ignored questions about discrepancies in Gen. Sheehan's MFR to AARO. A WSJ story citing Kirkpatrick on a 1989 Russian laser-weapon investigation is contradicted, Hume says, by AARO's claim of no such investigation records.
RG Hume
Independent FOIA researcher
UK researcher who files FOI/FOIA against MOD, DSTL, AARO, NNSA, DOE, FBI, CIA-adjacent holdings, EPA, CBP and police. Publishes as @rgh_ufos. Has said his name is on requests, has appeared in BBC and Mail Online, and was cited by Jesse Michels for the NNSA Starfish Prime response.
Cases
Source posts
Public posts by @rgh_ufos. Open may be blocked inside this preview — copy the URL and paste it in a new tab.
- 2026-08-28
when I asked AARO about this 1989 Russian laser weapon investigation they claimed they had no record of any such investigation.