The Pentagon’s newly established All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released findings Friday in the first volume of the Historical Record Report, fulfilling a requirement enacted by Congress to review the history of what are now referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
The report’s findings contradict David Grush, a former military intelligence officer and high-profile whistleblower who has claimed, without evidence, that the U.S. is holding back information about UAPs and that they have recovered nonhuman craft with nonhuman biological materials.
The AARO combed through U.S. government investigations and reports into UAPs as far back as 1945, looking into both classified and unclassified documents while also interviewing 30 people.
The office’s report said there is no evidence of hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs, saying any claims of those programs are either false or misidentified or relate to a disestablished program.
Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder explained that the office conducted a “rigorous analytic and scientific approach to investigate past U.S. government-sponsored UAP investigation efforts and the claims made by interviewees that the U.S. government and various contractors have recovered and are hiding off-world technology and biological material.”
“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,” Ryder said.
“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,” he added.
The AARO found most UAP sightings involved ordinary objects and were the “result of misidentification,” and said that while some UAP reports remain unresolved, those are still a mystery due to the lack of available data to demystify them.
The AARO did, however, acknowledge that the Department of Homeland Security received a proposal for a special program called Kona Blue by individuals who wanted to investigate if the U.S. was hiding off-world technology, but the program was never approved.
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