Ronald S Moltry
Ronald S. Moltry served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (USD I&S), the senior civilian intelligence official in the Department of Defense overseeing the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency elements, and other intelligence components. In his capacity as USD I&S, Moltry announced the creation of AARO on July 20, 2022, and selected Sean Kirkpatrick as its first director. He is a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service with a career spanning multiple defense and intelligence assignments.
| Role | Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (USD I&S) |
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Role in UAP Programs
Moltry is accused by the presenter of "The Hidden Wing" of deliberately establishing AARO not as a genuine UAP investigative body but as a whistleblower honeypot — a mechanism designed to identify and neutralize individuals with knowledge of UAP legacy programs. He is further alleged to have deleted references to Battelle Memorial Institute and Oak Ridge National Laboratory FFRDC from his public professional biography; both organizations are rumored to be involved in the analysis of recovered non-human vehicle systems. The presenter cites Moltry's USD I&S role as placing him at the apex of the classified oversight chain for any such legacy programs operating through SAFAHA sensitive activities channels.
Connections to the Carlyle Group
Moltry has notable ties to the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm with extensive defense industry investments and a former ownership stake in EG&G:
- He served as a board member of iCapital, a Carlyle-invested group.
- He served on the board of directors for the Better Angels Society, an organization funded by Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein.
These connections link Moltry to the same private equity network that, under Frank Carlucci's chairmanship, oversaw EG&G during the same period that EG&G's parking lot hosted the Wilson-Davis meeting — a document central to UAP legacy program claims.
2022 AARO Denial and UAP Oversight
At the 2022 Congressional UAP hearings, Moltry and Sean Kirkpatrick jointly denied the existence of UAP crash recoveries and reverse engineering programs. UAP researchers have characterized these denials as coordinated institutional disinformation. Moltry's USD I&S office was also involved in awarding the 2022 Sand Corp contract to AARO — a firm specializing in whistleblower suppression — which critics cite as evidence that AARO was designed to neutralize disclosures rather than investigate UAP.
Battelle Memorial Institute Advisory Board
Moltry has been a member of Battelle Memorial Institute's advisory board since 2016. Battelle is alleged by UAP researchers to have conducted classified analysis on recovered extraterrestrial materials — including Nitinol (Nickel-Titanium Alloy) — since at least 1949, and to have been the private contractor implicitly identified by Jacques Vallee and James Fox as holding UFO materials during a December 2020 Joe Rogan Experience episode. Moltry's simultaneous service on the Battelle advisory board and as the senior official overseeing AARO is cited as a foundational conflict of interest within the UAP oversight apparatus.
Moltry attempted to remove his Battelle advisory board membership from his public LinkedIn profile. The association was preserved in screenshots by POGO.org before the deletion, and was cited by UAP Gerb as evidence that Moltry was aware the Battelle connection was problematic in the context of his UAP-related oversight role.