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UFOs in storage? Findings about alien technology from exhaustive Pentagon review
The review looked at UFO sightings and reports dating back decades.
UFOs in storage? Findings about alien technology from exhaustive Pentagon review
The review looked at UFO sightings and reports dating back decades.ByLuis Martinez
March 8, 2024, 10:43 AM
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A wide-ranging Pentagon review of decades of U.S. government investigations into UFO sightings has found no evidence that any of the sightings were extraterrestrial in origin and also found no evidence that the U.S. government or private companies have ever possessed extraterrestrial technology that has been secretly reverse-engineered.
The review of U.S. government records dating back to 1945 was conducted by the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) which over the past two years has integrated the U.S. government's investigations into UFO or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) incidents, as required by Congress because of renewed interest as to whether they are extraterrestrial in origin.
"AARO has found no verifiable evidence that any UAP sighting has represented extraterrestrial activity," Tim Phillips, AARO's acting director, told reporters ahead of the 63-page unclassified report's public release on Friday.
"AARO has found no verifiable evidence that the U.S. government or private industry has ever had access to extraterrestrial technology,' he added. "AARO has found no indications that any information was illegally or inappropriately withheld from Congress."
"AARO assesses that alleged hidden UAP programs either do not exist, or were misidentified authentic national security programs unrelated to extraterrestrial technology exploitation," said Phillips. "We assess that claims of such hidden programs are largely the result of circular reporting in which a small group of individuals have repeated inaccurate claims they have heard from others over a period of several decades."
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Phillips emphasized that individuals with previous links to the U.S. military or the U.S. government who have stepped forward with some of these claims discounted by the review did so "without malice or any effort to mislead the public."
"Many have sincerely misinterpreted real events, or mistaken sensitive U.S. programs for which they were not cleared as having been related to UAP or extraterrestrial exploitation," he said.The report highlights several incidents where individuals named authentic classified programs but "the interviewees mistakenly associated these authentic USG programs with alien and extraterrestrial activity."
For example, AARO reviewed a report of a person "overhearing a conversation about a technology test at a military base where "aliens" allegedly were observing, and AARO judges that the interviewee misunderstood the conversation."
The report also details the testing of a sample from an alleged extraterrestrial crash that AARO acquired from a private UAP investigating organization and the U.S. Army that was determined to be "a manufactured, terrestrial alloy" of magnesium, zinc, bismuth, with trace elements of lead that "does not represent off-world technology or possess any exceptional qualities.
The historical review was described by Phillips as the most comprehensive government-wide review ever of classified and unclassified U.S. government records related to UFO incidents.
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"Nobody got in our way and said no," said Phillips of how even secretive government agencies provided their historic information to AARO. "When we had people who were slow to agree, the door was eventually opened."
Overall, he said that about half of AARO's 40-person staff were involved in the effort to gather historical information from all federal agencies that had conducted previous reviews of UAP incidents, interviews of witnesses referred by Congress, as well as put together the report that in some cases involved reviewing physical documents held by the National Archives.
The report includes a summary of every major U.S. government investigation of UFO incidents dating back to 1945 well beyond the well-known Project Blue Book and includes some whose existence was declassified for the first time so they could be included in the report.
One of those investigations was "Kona Blue" a proposed program within the Department of Homeland Security that was never fully approved because it was found to lack merit. Advocates for establishing the program "were convinced that the USG (U.S. Government) was hiding UAP technologies" and that Kona Blue would provide a structure where they could be monitored by congressional committees.
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"It is critical to note that no extraterrestrial craft or bodies were ever collected," said the report. "This material was only assumed to exist by KONA BLUE advocates and its anticipated contract performers. "
The report assessed that the majority of UAP sightings in earlier decades could be blamed "on the misidentification of ordinary phenomena and objects" and that some were almost certainly were a result of the surge in new technologies that observers would have understandably reported as UFOs."
One of those new technologies that was misidentified in the 1950s was the then secret and newly developed U-2 spy plane that flew at an altitude of 60,000 feet at a time when most planes flew at 20,000 feet. It's high-altitude flights and the sun's reflection at certain points in the horizon "would illuminate the U2" said the report.
The U2 was among the two dozen new airplane and space technologies listed in the report that may have been misidentified as UAP's because their existence was in some cases classified.
Phillips recounted a personal experience he had as an active duty Marine during a training exercise in Arizona that was later determined to have been an encounter with a secret classified military technology under development at that ti.
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Phillips said that he and members of his unit could see and hear an object flying overhead, but it did not appear on the radar of the air defense systems they were working on. Yet, they were able to see an object on the system's optical tracker that did not resemble anything they had ever seen before.
They all learned much later that what they had seen was a flight test of the F-117 Nighthawk, the first fighter aircraft to incorporate stealth technology that prevented it from appearing on radar.
"The stealth worked because the radar didn't pick it out" said Phillips. "But to us, we didn't know what that what that was" which he said was a similar experience to what they found in the interviews with UAP witnesses referred to AARO by Congress.
He explained that AARO investigators interviewed witnesses, referred to them by Congress, who provided details of their experiences which in some cases they could cross reference with technological testing at a nearby range that matched what they had described.
"I would have thought it would have been a UAP myself when I actually saw the picture of it," said Phillips. "So these are rational people making observations that just relating to what they know. "
The report describes the interest in UFO's in popular culture "is more pervasive now than ever" and that "the speed of discovery, and the ubiquity of information available through the internet on the topic is unprecedented."
"Aside from hoaxes and forgeries, misinformation and disinformation is more prevalent and easier to disseminate now than ever before, especially with today's advanced photo, video, and computer generated imagery tools," said the report which also cited Internet search and content recommendation algorithms as reinforcing "individuals' preconceptions and confirmation biases."
AARO continues to review new reports of UAP incidents being made by military personnel, as well as by the FAA and NASA. Phillips said that the number of incidents that have been forwarded to AARO now numbers more than 1,200, but that they are able to resolve a good number of them quickly, with 122 resolved in February.
Phillips said that if his office ever determined that a UAP incident was actually determined to be extraterrestrial in origin that information would not become classified because that is not within his office's purview.
"The fact that we don't understand something, it's not necessarily classified," he said.
Phillips told reporters that as part of his office's effort to quickly resolve UAP incidents AARO was working to develop a new portable real time UAP sensor technology known as Gremlin that could be deployed on short notice to national security sites where UAP incidents were reported to have taken place.
"We need to understand what that is," said Phillips. "And so that's why we're developing sensor capability that we can deploy in reaction to reports."
"We already have specified what type of sensors they need to have to capture this in real time and then how that information will be relayed back to us and our mission partners we can analyze it, help them mediate whatever that particular incident is," he said.
Phillips said the new system is currently undergoing range testing to detect profiles for drones, as well as birds and bats, and has provided new insights into other natural occurrences.
"We're learning a lot about solar flaring," said Phillips. "We're really starting to understand what's in orbit around our planet and how we can eliminate those as anomalous objects."
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Aliens, UFOs not being hidden from public (really): New Pentagon report
The report seeks to put to rest the notion that the Pentagon – or anyone else in or working for the U.S. government -- is hiding anything when it comes to visits from outer space.
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WASHINGTON – Nothing to see here. The Pentagon, after an extensive probe, found no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial technology on Earth.
In a conclusion sure to rile conspiracy theorists everywhere, the Pentagon review found there is no reason to believe the U.S. government is hiding information about extraterrestrial visits.
The findings, sent to Congress as part of a mandated review, are the most extensive rebuttal that the Department of Defense has issued in response to claims that it is covering up alien visits to Earth.
As with practically everything else originating from the U.S. military, the new report has a wonky name and comes from a wonky office. It’s called the “Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume I,” and comes from the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, dated February 2024.
But the report is a very serious effort, based on an exhaustive all-source review, to put to rest the notion that the Pentagon — or anyone else in or working for the U.S. government — is hiding anything when it comes to visits from outer space.
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“To date, AARO has found no verifiable evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have access to or have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology,” Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement accompanying the report. “Also, AARO has found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology.”
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” Ryder added, while also emphasizing that military and civilian authorities will continue to investigate all of the many claims about alien visits.
“As AARO has said before,” Ryder said, “they will follow the evidence where it leads, wherever it leads.”
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The 63-page report looked into all information available, and was designed to take into account a broad array of potential anomalies generated by new — and old —technologies. That includes spy planes and balloons used by friendly and hostile nations, military and civilian drones and satellites and even more recreational types of airborne vehicles.Get the On Politics newsletter in your inbox.
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The report, as exhaustive and conclusive as the Pentagon says it is, is unlikely to quell all suspicions that it is hiding something about the existence of so-called UAPs, or “unidentified aerial phenomena,” the official U.S. government term for UFOs, its authors acknowledged.
They cited the increasing attention paid to aliens and UFOS, and widespread distrust of the government.
Last July 26, Congress held a hearing on the issue of UAPs, where lawmakers and a large crowd of spectators listened as a former Air Force intelligence officer testified that the U.S. government is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects.
The Pentagon has denied the claims made by retired Maj. David Grusch. But his testimony before the House Oversight subcommittee made international headlines.
According to an AP report on the hearing, Grusch testified that he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs relating to UAPs. At the time, Grusch said, he was detailed to the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that operates U.S. spy satellites.
“I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access,” Grusch told lawmakers. He also said the U.S. government likely has been aware of “non-human” extraterrestrial activity since the 1930s.
The report released Friday did not mention Grusch by name. But it said that in completing it, the AARO “reviewed all official USG investigatory efforts since 1945, researched classified and unclassified archives, conducted approximately 30 interviews, and partnered with Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) officials responsible for controlled and special access program oversight, respectively.”
The Pentagon also said the AARO will publish a Volume II — also in accordance with its mandate under the National Defense Authorization Act — that will provide analysis of any information acquired by AARO after the date of the publication of Volume I.
Report unlikely to satisfy everyone: Pentagon
The report’s findings are unlikely to satisfy everyone, especially those in the community of conspiracy theorists and other independent investigators who think any denials are part of the cover-up, the report’s authors acknowledge. Some are insistent, for instance, that the government has a secret site where it is exploiting downed extraterrestrial craft, which it says it investigated and came up empty.“A consistent theme in popular culture involves a particularly persistent narrative that the [U.S. government] — or a secretive organization within it — recovered several off-world spacecraft and extraterrestrial biological remains … and that it has conspired since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United States Congress and the American public,” the report stated.
But to drive home its findings, it included details of past investigations, beginning with Project SAUCER in 1946 and Projects SIGN, GRUDGE, TWINKLE, BEAR and BLUE BOOK over the decades that followed.
An 'obsession' with UFOs dating back more than half a century
America’s “obsession” with UFOs began in 1947, “when two headline-making sightings of strange flying objects prompt the U.S. Air Force’s newly formed Department of Defense to create a series of secret programs to determine how unidentified phenomena may pose a threat to national security,” according to a new – and apparently perfectly timed – book on the topic by journalist and historian Garrett Graf.“Over the next half-century, as the atomic age gives way to the space race and the Cold War, the mission continues, bringing together an unexpected group of astronomers, military officials, civilian contactees, and true believers who bring us closer, then further, then closer again, to answering one of our most enduring questions: What exactly is out there?,” Graff asks in the book, “UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There,” by journalist and historian Garrett Graff
Graff was unavailable for immediate comment. But X, formerly known as Twitter, was already aflame with hot takes from people who questioned the new Pentagon report’s findings.
“So the people doing the cover up of #ufo #uap say they find no cover up classic self-fulfilled prophesy,” said Tim Burchett, who described himself as a former Tennessee state legislator representing the state’s 2nd district.
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The Pentagon's UFO office has once again stressed that it has found no evidence of alien technology in the skies, in space or crashed in the American desert.
The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was created to help the U.S. government study and resolve reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a new term that includes UFOs not only in the sky but also in space as well as under water, or even those that appear to travel between these domains.
On Friday (March 8), the office released its long-awaited "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume I." The report is sure to cause controversy among the UAP disclosure movement that argues the U.S. government does, in fact, know a lot more about alleged alien presence than it publicly admits.
"AARO found no evidence that any USG [U.S. government] investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology," the report's executive summary notes.
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While the report notes, importantly, that many UAP reports remain unsolved or unidentified, it adds that AARO believes this is mainly due to a lack of data. If more and/or better quality information were available, many of these sightings could be identified as "ordinary objects or phenomena," AARO's report states.
"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.
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.
David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Office representative on the Defense Department's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, testifies during the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency," in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Image credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of AARO, published an op-ed in Scientific American on Thursday (March 7) arguing that while it is important for the U.S. government to study UFOs, it needs to do so from a scientific perspective and without resorting to conspiracy theories.
"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."
Instead, Kirkpatrick wrote, these critics have relied on secondhand reporting without "rigor in their critical thinking."
The former AARO chief conceded that the report's conclusions are sure to be criticized by those who believe the Pentagon and private aerospace companies possess crashed alien technology that they are hiding from the public, but notes that his former office has given every opportunity for witnesses and whistleblowers to come forward with any evidence they might have.
"While those who came forward have provided valuable information (albeit not of extraterrestrials or cover-ups), those who chose to instead titillate the national interest only stir division and hatred against the credible men and women of AARO who are working faithfully to address this mission," Kirkpatrick wrote in the op-ed.
However, according to some accounts, many U.S. government or military personnel who refused to share their eyewitness testimony with AARO.
"This report is not going to satisfy critics in part because there are many witnesses who did not trust AARO and would not speak with them," says Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations.
"However, what I find most concerning is the false conflation in some news coverage of the assertion 'There is no recovered alien technology' with the notion that 'we don't have evidence of craft doing things beyond our present understanding of science and technology,'" Mellon told Space.com via email. "In fact, hundreds of credible military reports remain unexplained and are continuing to pour in."
Mellon added that "the public needs to understand why it is imperative to continue to aggressively investigating UAP, for both national security and science, regardless of the accuracy of this report."
A guard gate at the Nevada Test and Training Range that includes the Area 51 test facility near Rachel, Nevada. (Image credit: Barry King/WireImage/Getty Images)
AARO's new report goes on to list U.S. military and space programs that could have accounted for some UAP sightings. At least "some portion of these misidentifications almost certainly were a result of the surge in new technologies that observers would have understandably reported as UFOs," the report states.
Some of the examples include Project Mogul, a high-altitude balloon program designed to spy on Soviet nuclear tests that reportedly was responsible for a balloon crash outside of Roswell, New Mexico. That incident led to the widely known story of a crashed flying saucer that persists to this day.
Another example is the Gambit project, which launched photographic spy satellites into orbit that jettisoned film canisters in reentry vehicles that were then recovered by U.S. Air Force (USAF) aircraft as they descended by parachute. Many of the USAF's formerly classified aircraft are also cited, including the U-2 spy plane, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and the SR-71 Blackbird.
The AARO report points out that UAP sightings and beliefs that UFOs represent alien technology have tended to spike at times of growing concern about national security and technological surprise, such as during the Cold War. The report found that at least some UFO sightings since the 1940s represent "never-before-seen experimental and operational space, rocket and air systems, including stealth technologies and the proliferation of drone platforms."
It could be that such a phenomenon is also occurring today, as revolutionary new spaceflight and aerospace technologies are being developed and tested at a rapid pace.
"It is understandable how observers unfamiliar with these programs could mistake sightings of these new technologies as something extraordinary, even other-worldly," the report concludes.
Update: This article was updated at 3:30 p.m. ET on March 8 to include comments from former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon.
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