Pentagon says no proof of secret US work on alien tech

Has the US confirmed sightings of alien craft, or labored to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial know-how?

A greater than 60-page Pentagon report launched Friday says no, pouring chilly water on fashionable conspiracy theories about authorities cover-ups of contact with aliens.

The report was mandated by Congress, which required the submission to lawmakers of a “written report detailing the historic document of the US authorities referring to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs),” extra generally generally known as UFOs.

The Protection Division’s All-domain Anomaly Decision Workplace (AARO) “discovered no proof” that any authorities investigation, educational analysis or official evaluation “has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial know-how.”

As a substitute, “all investigative efforts, in any respect ranges of classification, concluded that the majority sightings had been unusual objects and phenomena and the results of misidentification,” stated the report.

It additionally “discovered no empirical proof for claims that the USG and personal firms have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial know-how.”

AARO stated the incorrect reverse-engineering claims are “largely the results of round reporting from a bunch of people who consider this to be the case, regardless of the dearth of any proof.”

In placing collectively the report—the primary of two volumes—AARO reviewed US investigative efforts since 1945, researched archives, performed greater than two dozen interviews and labored with intelligence and protection officers accountable for oversight of managed and particular entry packages.

Sean Kirkpatrick, the since-retired head of AARO, informed lawmakers final 12 months that it had not recognized indicators of alien exercise.

AARO “has discovered no credible proof up to now of extraterrestrial exercise, off-world know-how, or objects that defy the recognized legal guidelines of physics,” Kirkpatrick stated.

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