The Pentagon office responsible for investigating and analyzing reports of unidentified aerial phenomena has not found any confirmed sightings of extraterrestrial technology, according to a newly released report.
Last week, the Department of Defense sent to Congress the first volume of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office historical record report, which was requested by lawmakers and included in the Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Policy Act.
Lawmakers established AARO as a central office for UAP issues under the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022.
This review covers all UAP investigations conducted by the U.S. government since 1945 and includes materials and interviews from classified and unclassified archives.
“AARO approaches this project with the broadest perspective possible and thoroughly evaluates these claims and assertions without any preconceived conclusions or assumptions,” Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement Friday. We conducted an investigation,'' he said.
AARO's investigation also found no evidence that the U.S. government or private companies have access to extraterrestrial technology. According to AARO's assessment, most UAP sightings are ordinary objects that are misidentified.
A UAP reverse engineering program in which secret government agencies and private companies use recovered alien spacecraft to recreate their technology, which individuals interviewed for the report said “neither exists.” is a misidentified national security program that has nothing to do with the exploitation of extraterrestrial technology. Otherwise, we will decide to cancel the project,'' Ryder said.
Although many UAP reports remain unresolved, AARO believes that if better data were available, most of these incidents could be identified as routine objects and resolved.
In recent years, the Hill has pushed the Department of Defense to expand its disclosures about UAPs. For example, the FY 2023 NDAA allows for the creation of the AARO website, which the Department of Defense said will serve as a “one-stop destination for all publicly available information” on the subject.
And the FY 2024 NDAA included language that would begin the process of collecting all of the government's UAP records into a single collection and ultimately declassifying each record.
“They took this very seriously,” Ryder told reporters Friday. “They followed the evidence wherever it led. I think the results speak for themselves.”
