The Pentagon’s UFO office emphasized — once again — that it has found no evidence of alien technology.
On March 8, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released a public version of a congressionally ordered comprehensive review of eight decades of classified U.S. government programs that debunked decades of speculation about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) – or UFOs as they are more commonly known. According to the report, there is no evidence of extraterrestrial activity or efforts by the department to withhold and harbor alien technology or information from Congress and the American public.
“AARO 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,” the report says.
Many sensational claims were made last year that would, if true, indeed shake the public’s very understanding of the universe, but in the end, none of these claims were substantiated with first-hand knowledge and instead were based on passed down stories.
The most memorable came on July 26, 2023, when David Grusch, a decorated U.S. military combat veteran and former Pentagon intelligence officer, told members of the Subcommittee on National Security at the Border and Foreign Affairs that the U.S. government has operated a “multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program” of “non-human” technology according to individuals with direct knowledge of these crash recovery programs that he had spoken with during his time in the intelligence community.
In this report, AARO investigated numerous programs alleged to involve UAP exploitation, but it found that none had first-hand knowledge of the programs of UP-related research. AARO did discover a program that was proposed to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) named Kona Blue, to reverse-engineer any recovered extraterrestrial craft.
However, the effort was eventually rejected by DHS leaders “for lacking merit,” and never actually recovered any other-worldly craft, according to the report.
“It is critical to note that no extraterrestrial craft or bodies were ever collected—this material was only assumed to exist by KONA BLUE advocates and its anticipated contract Performers,” the report states.
“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. “[Claims are] the result of circular reporting from a group of individuals who believe this to be the case, despite the lack of any evidence.”
NASA’s UAP study team reached similar conclusions in its first public report, which was published in September 2023.
In addition, the report does note that many of its UAP reports remain unsolved or unidentified.
Since October 2023, AARO has received more than 800 reports of UAP incidents, according to the office’s annual report.
AARO believes this is in large part due to a lack of data.
According to AARO, if more and 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,” the report states.
