- The Department of Defense has found no evidence of any connection between UFOs and the national security state—or evidence of UFOs, for that matter.
- The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office conducted interviews, tested alleged alien materials, and investigated sightings.
- The report attempts to debunk several narratives in regards to the government and UFOs, including cooperation between the federal government and aliens, defense contractors reverse engineering UFO technology, and more.
A newly published government report states that not only is there no proof of any secret effort by the U.S. government to cooperate with aliens or research alien technology, there isn’t any proof that UFO sightings are the results of extraterrestrial visitations to Earth. The “Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP),” written by the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, denies all claims regarding the U.S. government and UFOs, stating that they’re the results of decreased public trust in government, the prevalence of UFOs in public culture, and unnecessary government secrecy.
The report was compiled by the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, an office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense that, in 2022, was tasked to research reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (what people within the U.S. government call UFOs). The 63 page report details the office’s investigation into claims that the U.S. government has some sort of secret UFO program occurring—claims starting from secret government knowledge of UFOs to actual relations between the federal government and extraterrestrial civilizations.
The report—which got here out Friday, March eighth—apparently has a classified version, but it surely is unlikely to have anything recent or different. AARO was led to consider that the difference in classification is probably going on account of discussion of sensitive or secret programs, in addition to individuals, which might be a part of the key UFO-government enterprise.
The Narratives
The report attempts to handle two major narratives that AARO believes emerged in regards to the U.S. government and UFOs. The primary is the conspiracy theory that “the USG and industry partners are in possession of and are testing off-world technology that has been concealed from congressional oversight and the world since roughly 1964, and possibly since 1947, if the Roswell events are included.”
AARO states that it investigated plenty of claims on this vein. One was that named corporations, likely well-known U.S. defense contractors, were experimenting on alien technology. One other was that the U.S. government was in possession of exotic, otherworldly materials made by aliens. Others included a claim that a former U.S. military officer had touched a UFO, and a former U.S. service member had observed “U.S. Special Forces” loading materials right into a UFO. Individuals interviewed by AARO claimed that “between 2004 and 2007 the White House requested a research institute in Virginia study the theoretical societal impacts of revealing that UAP are extraterrestrial in origin”
The second narrative was that UFOs were someway interfering with the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and that “a cluster of UAP sightings that occurred in close proximity to U.S. nuclear facilities have resulted within the malfunctioning and destruction of nuclear missiles.” If true, this might represent a considerable risk to the U.S. nuclear deterrent, leaving U.S. nuclear weapons vulnerable to an out of doors force that was at best unknown, and at worst, hostile.
The Debunking
The AARO report was unable to substantiate any of the varied claims it investigated. Not one of the claims regarding UFO technology, U.S. government secret programs, or individuals with vital information panned out. Most of the allegations seem like based on hearsay or misunderstandings, or involved second or third hand information that ultimately went nowhere.
The report knocks down one allegation after one other. The named firms denied being involved with reverse engineering UFO technology, and material allegedly recovered from aliens was actually a metal alloy made on Earth by humans. The military official who reportedly touched a UFO denied the event took place, suggesting whoever made the allegation was referring to an incident wherein he actually touched a F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter. The report on alien contact—allegedly commissioned by the White House—was real, however the U.S. government had nothing to do with it.
The AARO report doesn’t describe what the office found when it looked into the report of “special forces” loading materials right into a UFO, but that’s assumed to haven’t panned out, either.
The report results will not be surprising. If there was clear and verifiable proof of U.S. government involvement with aliens, it probably would have surfaced a protracted time ago. Additionally it is possible that such involvement is already heavily insulated from investigation, and that those that are or were involved are still sticking to sworn secrecy oaths—which, in government circles, include serious consequences for those who violate them. Did the AARO report fully investigate the vastness of the military industrial complex? Perhaps, and possibly not.