Nov 1, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 15 segments
In this episode of Need to Know Interviews, Bryce Zabel sits down with journalist Ben Schreckinger to explore the growing battle over UFO secrecy, government transparency, and the conflicting…
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I mean, it's not every day that I'm sitting down preparing to go on a show and then my inbox on my computer clears with an article breaking from the guy I'm about to talk to.

So, you know, I think we should talk about your story because Well, first of all, we both know, because you're very knowledgeable on this topic now, that Sean Kirkpatrick is a very controversial guy.

So the first thing I just want to ask you is, how did you end up talking to Sean Kirkpatrick for this article? Had you already talked to him before on other issues?
maybe a year ago, maybe several months ago, as I was doing initial research on this subject before launching Paradigm.
And since Jay Stratton's book has come out, he's responded to a couple of my queries, again, sporadically.
So as much as I would love to sit down with Sean, have a phone call with him, really get into some of these allegations in depth, at the moment, it's just occasional written responses to my questions that I'm getting.

Well, I thought the article had some shock value in it because it's always interesting.

And so a lot of people in the UFO, UAP business have sort of taken – are kind of taken aback by that.

But I think we have to separate what he's actually saying versus how he's saying it, because I think that's true for everybody in public life.

And the main thing he seems to be saying in the article you've just written, or that you seem to be saying he's saying, I guess, is that Kirkpatrick, Sean Kirkpatrick, who ran Arrow, says he investigated these Lockheed allegations that have been all over the internet and all over UAP world, um, about Lockheed having craft and reverse engineering.

And in fact, brought up most specifically by, I guess, Jay Stratton's book, where I believe he says they have 12 of them.

I mean, it's not every day that I'm sitting down preparing to go on a show and then my inbox on my computer clears with an article breaking from the guy I'm about to talk to.

So, you know, I think we should talk about your story because Well, first of all, we both know, because you're very knowledgeable on this topic now, that Sean Kirkpatrick is a very controversial guy.

So the first thing I just want to ask you is, how did you end up talking to Sean Kirkpatrick for this article? Had you already talked to him before on other issues?
maybe a year ago, maybe several months ago, as I was doing initial research on this subject before launching Paradigm.
And since Jay Stratton's book has come out, he's responded to a couple of my queries, again, sporadically.
So as much as I would love to sit down with Sean, have a phone call with him, really get into some of these allegations in depth, at the moment, it's just occasional written responses to my questions that I'm getting.

Well, I thought the article had some shock value in it because it's always interesting.

And so a lot of people in the UFO, UAP business have sort of taken – are kind of taken aback by that.

But I think we have to separate what he's actually saying versus how he's saying it, because I think that's true for everybody in public life.

And the main thing he seems to be saying in the article you've just written, or that you seem to be saying he's saying, I guess, is that Kirkpatrick, Sean Kirkpatrick, who ran Arrow, says he investigated these Lockheed allegations that have been all over the internet and all over UAP world, um, about Lockheed having craft and reverse engineering.

And in fact, brought up most specifically by, I guess, Jay Stratton's book, where I believe he says they have 12 of them.
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