Has the U.S. government ever found proof of alien life floating around the cosmos? It’s a question that nobody can agree on, but the Pentagon is at least hoping to put to bed once and for all. To do this, it’s released a new report that claims that the U.S. government has no proof whatsoever that UFO sightings around the world are a result of alien activity.
The report, which was brought to our attention by the folks at Space.com, claims that authorities across the U.S. have found “no evidence of alien technology in the skies, in space or crashed in the American desert.” That, to me at least, is exactly what someone who had found alien life but wanted to keep it secret would say.
But I digress. The report actually outlines the findings of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which was created to study and resolve reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) - the new name for UFOs. Space.com reports:
“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.
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.
Reports of UAP zipping around the sky are, according to the report, nothing more than “misidentification” in the “ vast majority of reports,” says the piece. It goes further than saying that any UAP sightings were codswallop, even stating that the U.S. government has never been in possession of “crashed or reverse-engineered alien technology.”
It’s all a bit depressing for any true believers out there, especially after last year’s highly-publicized hearings from U.S. Marines claiming unexplainable objects were out there. However, the former head of the AARO said that anyone who’s committed to the UFO cause has had ample opportunity to come forward with any groundbreaking evidence that they think could prove their existence once and for all. Space.com adds:
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.
So while authorities across the U.S. may have hoped this report could silence the conspiracy theorists, especially following Nasa’s own admission that UFOs were unlikely to have visited Earth, it still feels like a debate that will roll on and on and on.