New US Defense Department Report Finds 'No Evidence' of Alien Technology

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:

The U.S. is not secretly hiding alien technology or extraterrestrial beings from the public, according to a defense department report.

On Friday, the Pentagon 'published the findings of an investigation conducted by the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a government office established in 2022 to detect and, as necessary, mitigate threats including 'anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects'....

AARO investigators, which were 'granted full access to all pertinent sensitive [U.S. government] programs', reviewed all official government investigatory efforts since 1945. Investigators also researched classified and unclassified archives, conducted approximately 30 interviews, and collaborated with intelligence community and defense department officials responsible for controlled and special access program oversight, the report revealed.

NPR writes that 'Many of the sightings turned out to be drones, weather balloons, spy planes, satellites, rockets and planets, according to the report...'

'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,' Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement Friday. All investigative efforts concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and the result of misidentification, Ryder said... The office plans to publish a second volume of the report later this year that covers findings from interviews and research done between November 2023 and April 2024.'

The report finds no evidence of any confirmed alien technology, the Guardian notes:

It added that sensors and visual observations are imperfect, the vast majority of cases lack actionable data and such available data is limited or of poor quality. The report also said resources and staffing for such programs have largely been irregular and sporadic and that the vast majority of reports 'almost certainly' are the result of misidentification. In addition, the report found 'no empirical evidence for claims that the [U.S. government] and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology'...

The report's public release comes as AARO's acting director, Timothy Phillips, told reporters on Wednesday that the US military is developing a UFO sensor and detection system called Gremlin. 'If we have a national security site and there are objects being reported that [are] within restricted airspace or within a maritime range or within the proximity of one of our spaceships, we need to understand what that is... and so that's why we're developing sensor capability that we can deploy in reaction to reports,' Phillips said, CNN reports.

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