The Pentagon's UFO Office reiterated that it has found no evidence of alien technology in the sky, in space, or in the American desert.
The All Area Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was established to assist the U.S. government in investigating and resolving reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). UAP is a new term that includes UFOs not only in the sky but also in space and underwater. Or even what appears to be moving between these domains.
On Friday (March 8), the agency released its long-awaited Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement in Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume 1. The report is sure to cause controversy among the UAP Disclosure Movement, which claims the U.S. government actually knows far more about the alleged alien presence than it has publicly admitted. is.
“AARO did not find any evidence that the USG'' [U.S. government] “An investigation, academically supported study, or official review committee has confirmed that the UAP sightings represent extraterrestrial technology,” the report's summary states.
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Importantly, the report notes that many UAP reports remain unresolved or unconfirmed, but adds that AARO believes this is primarily due to a lack of data. The AARO report says many of these sightings could be identified as “common objects or phenomena” if more and/or better quality information becomes available.
“The vast majority of reports are almost certainly the result of misidentification and are a direct result of a lack of domain awareness. There is a direct correlation.'' writes AARO.
NASA's UAP research team reached a similar conclusion in its first public report published in September 2023. “While NASA's independent research team found no evidence that UAPs are of extraterrestrial origin, we do not know what these UAPs are,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the time. Told.
AARO's report goes on to say that despite widely publicized claims, including testimony from former U.S. military and intelligence officials at a July 2023 Congressional hearing, the agency believes that the U.S. It said it had found no evidence to suggest it had reverse-engineered foreign material in its possession. Nor is there actually a hidden “UAP reverse engineering program” within the U.S. government or private industry.
“Based on all information provided to date, AARO believes that claims regarding specific persons, known locations, technology testing, and documents allegedly involved in or related to reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology are inaccurate. ,” the report states. It added that most of these claims are “the result of circulating reports from groups of individuals who believe this to be the case despite the lack of evidence.”
Sean Kirkpatrick, former director of AARO, said: An editorial has been published Scientific American magazine on Thursday (March 7) argued that it is important for the U.S. government to study UFOs, but it needs to be done from a scientific perspective without resorting to conspiracy theories.
“Nevertheless, many outside observers have criticized AARO as part of the government's continued cover-up of the alien presence,” Kirkpatrick wrote in an editorial. “Interestingly, they have not provided any verifiable evidence of this, and some of the more outspoken people have not discussed their position or data they claim to have. “We have not actively sought to engage with authorities to provide any evidence or evidence.”
Instead, Kirkpatrick wrote, these critics rely on secondhand reporting, lacking “the rigor of critical thinking.”
The former director of AARO said the report's conclusions are sure to be criticized by those who believe the Pentagon and commercial aerospace companies have crashed alien technology that they are hiding from the public. acknowledged that his former office has given every opportunity to witnesses and whistleblowers to submit any evidence they may have.
“Those who have come forward have provided valuable information (albeit not about extraterrestrials or cover-ups), but those who have chosen instead to inflame the national interest are at the mercy of AARO, which is working in good faith on this issue.” “It is a mission that only incites division and hatred against trusted men and women,” Kirkpatrick wrote in an op-ed.
The report goes on to list U.S. military and space programs that may have been responsible for some UAP sightings. At least “some of these misidentifications are almost certainly the result of the proliferation of new technologies that observers would reasonably have reported as UFOs,” the report says.
An example is Project Mogul, a high-altitude balloon program designed to monitor a Soviet nuclear test that reportedly caused a balloon crash outside Roswell, New Mexico. This incident led to widely known stories about flying saucer crashes that continue to this day.
Another example is the Gambit project, which launched a photo-reconnaissance satellite into orbit, jettisoned a film canister inside an atmospheric reentry vehicle, and retrieved it by a parachuting U.S. Air Force (USAF) aircraft. Many of the U.S. Air Force's once-classified aircraft are also listed, including the U-2 reconnaissance plane, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, and the SR-72 Blackbird.
The AARO report notes that UAP sightings and the belief that UFOs represent alien technology tend to spike during periods of heightened concern about national security and technological surprises, such as during the Cold War. . The report states that at least some UFO sightings since the 1940s represent “unprecedented experimental and operational space, rocket and aviation systems, including the proliferation of stealth technology and drone platforms.” It revealed that.
That may be happening now, as innovative new spaceflight and aerospace technologies are rapidly being developed and tested.
“It is understandable that observers unfamiliar with these programs may misinterpret sightings of these new technologies as unusual or even otherworldly,” the report concludes.
