The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office has issued a congressionally mandated report declaring that there was no evidence the U.S. government was "covering up knowledge of extraterrestrial technology and said there was no evidence that any U.F.O. sightings represented alien visitation to Earth," according to a report in the New York Times.
The report also attempted to debunk reports by several whistleblowers, including David Charles Grusch, a former member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, who claims knowledge of government possession of 12-15 alien spacecraft.
The report contains no surprises and nothing new in the effort to unpeel the various layers of truth and fiction surrounding the UAP or "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon" that the government is hiding.
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder said in a statement.
This is true. But what about the one or two sightings of UAPs out of the many thousands that can't be explained?
While many reports of what the government now calls Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena remain unsolved, the new document states plainly there is nothing to see. The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office concluded that if better quality data were available, “most of these cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena.”
So we need a bigger telescope? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the conclusion, but it seems to be a a fairly confident statement since we can't know what we don't know.
"The vast majority of reports almost certainly are the result of misidentification and a direct consequence of the lack of domain awareness; there is a direct correlation between the amount and quality of available information on a case with the ability to conclusively resolve it," AARO writes.
Duh.
The Pentagon has, over time, tried to chip away at such claims. Officials have testified to Congress that the government has no extraterrestrial materials — much less a spaceship — in its possession. The Pentagon and NASA have used basic trigonometry to show why publicized military videos do not show anything extraordinary or alien.
OK, so why aren't we doing anything to counter the extraordinary abilities of these earth-built aircraft? If they aren't aliens, it means that there is one helluva an air force on this planet that can fly rings around anything we can put up in the sky.
Not very reassuring.
NASA's UAP study team reached similar conclusions in its first public report, which was published in September 2023. "The NASA independent study team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin, but we don't know what these UAP are," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the time.
AARO's report goes on to state that, despite widely publicized claims made in a July 2023 congressional hearing that included testimony from former U.S. military and intelligence community personnel, the office found no evidence suggesting the U.S. government is in possession of crashed or reverse-engineered alien technology, nor that any hidden "UAP reverse-engineering programs" actually exist, either in the U.S. government or in private industry.
"AARO determined, based on all information provided to date, that claims involving specific people, known locations, technological tests, and documents allegedly involved in or related to the reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial technology, are inaccurate," the report states. These claims are mostly "the result of circular reporting from a group of individuals who believe this to be the case, despite the lack of any evidence," it adds.
"Many outside observers nonetheless have criticized AARO as supposedly part of a continuing government cover-up of the existence of aliens," Kirkpatrick wrote in the op-ed. "Interestingly, they have not provided any verifiable evidence of this, nor are some of the more outspoken willing to engage with the office to discuss their positions or offer up the data and evidence they claim to possess."
Do not blame ordinary observers for believing there has been a coverup. From beginning to end — from Area 51 to the present — the United States government has lied about UFOs. UAPs, and everything in between. Taking a "scientific approach" to understanding UAPs is exactly what most of us have been begging the government to do for 75 years. Instead, the government played PR games and employed "I've got a secret" misinformation operations to keep whatever knowledge we had far from scientists and interested lay people.
This report appears to be more of the same. Not because the government doesn't confirm the existence of aliens but because it's using the same arguments it has been using since the 19i50s. Share the evidence with reputable scientists. Crowdsource the hell out of it. Making the search for extraterrestrial intelligence — or debunking it — a national effort could solve a lot of mysteries that currently bedevil the program.
