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Blake, Wm. Night Startled by the Lark. 1816.

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A former UFO Pentagon chief claims that fanatics in the U.S. government are pushing officials to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to investigate aliens, even though they lack evidence.

Sean Kirkpatrick, former chief investigator at the Pentagon, said during an interview this week: “The actual conspiracy is being carried out by a group of true believers themselves to get the government involved in the business of investigating aliens. That is a self-licking ice cream cone, exactly.”

“There is no evidence of extraterrestrials. There is no evidence of aliens, and there’s no evidence of the government conspiracy. They’re all relaying stories that they’ve heard from other people. And if you track where all those people know each other, it all goes back to the same core group of people,” he asserted.

On the flip side, The Daily Star reported last year that commanders in the Pentagon have halted UFO research “over fears aliens were demons,” citing lead UFO researcher Ron James. James said there’s “a very large contingent of people” in the U.S. government who align with Christian fundamentalism and actively oppose any research into extraterrestrial life.