US is not hiding aliens or UFO technology from public, Pentagon says

The Department of Defense released a report calling a slew of reports and claims about government reverse engineering technology “inaccurate.”

One of the famous McMinnville UFO photographs taken near McMinnville, Oregon on May 11, 1950.

According to the Department of Defense report, the United States is not hiding alien technology or alien creatures from the public.

On Friday, the Pentagon released the results of an investigation conducted by the Domain-Wide Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a government agency created in 2022 to detect and, if necessary, correct anomalies.
Also to reduce threats, including “anomalous, unidentified space, air, underwater and trans-medium objects.”

Addressing notions of alien technology and extraterrestrial beings, the report states: “A recurring theme in popular culture includes a particularly persistent narrative that the US government has discovered several alien spacecraft and extraterrestrial biological remains. They want to recover the technology they found, and have been conspiring since the 1940s to hide these efforts from the United States Congress and the American public.”

“The proliferation of television programs, books, films and a wealth of content on the Internet and social media has likely influenced the public conversation on this topic.
By reinforcing these beliefs among certain segments of the population.”

AARO investigators, who were given full access to all relevant sensitive US government programs, reviewed every official government investigation going back to 1945. Investigators also reviewed classified and unclassified archives, conducted about 30 interviews and collaborated with intelligence community and Defense Department officials responsible for overseeing controlled and special access programs, the report said.

Image from the collection of UFO expert Eduard “Billy” Meyer, 1976.

According to the report, AARO found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, scientist-sponsored study, or official review board confirmed that any UAP sighting constituted extraterrestrial technology.

It has been said that sensors and visual observations are imperfect. In the vast majority of cases, actionable data is lacking and available data is limited or of poor quality. The report also found that resources and personnel for such programs were largely irregular and sporadic. The vast majority of reports are “almost certainly” the result of misidentification.

Additionally, the report found “no empirical evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have reverse engineered extraterrestrial technologies.”

Addressing the influx of reports and allegations that the US government is involved in reverse engineering alien technology, the report states: “AARO has determined: Based on all information provided to date, the allegations relate to specific people, known locations, technological tests and documents , allegedly involved in or associated with the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology are inaccurate.”

A former US intelligence official said the government ran a decades-long secret UFO program that attempted to reconstruct crashed objects. At a congressional hearing, David Grush, who led the Defense Department's unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) analysis until 2023, said that “non-human” entities had been discovered.

Despite the findings, the report suggests that the government at one point considered a program to reverse engineer alien technology. The program, called Kona Blue, was proposed to the Department of Homeland Security and was supported by people who believed that the US government was hiding alien technology.

“The proposal received some support within DHS, but management ultimately rejected it as unfounded,” the report said, adding that proponents of the program never provided empirical evidence for their claims.

The report said AARO investigators found no evidence that U.S. companies “ever had world-class technology” and that the claim by the interviewee who identified the former military officer as having allegedly touched an extraterrestrial spacecraft was “untrue.”

“The claim was formally denied by the named former officer, who told a story about how he touched an F-117 Nighthawk that could have been misinterpreted by the interlocutor, although the former officer does not remember speaking with the interlocutor,” the report said.

AARO investigators also concluded that a sample of the alleged extraterrestrial spacecraft that AARO acquired from the private research organization UAP and the US Army was a “manufactured terrestrial alloy.”

The report added that the sample was mainly composed of magnesium, zinc and bismuth, as well as other trace elements such as lead.

The public release of the report came after AARO Acting Director Timothy Phillips told reporters that the US military was developing a UFO sensor and detection system called Gremlin.

“If we have a national security asset and there are reports of objects that are in restricted airspace, within a maritime zone or in close proximity to one of our spacecraft, we need to understand what it is. That's why we're developing sensor capabilities that we can use in response to messages,” Phillips said, according to CNN.

Meanwhile, a recent study by Johns Hopkins University found that sound waves believed to have come from an extraterrestrial fireball in 2014 north of Papua New Guinea “were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling down a nearby road.” .

This, in turn, raises doubts that the materials recovered from the ocean are alien artifacts that came from a meteorite.