The US Department of Defense has published a report on UFO sightings, which is the most comprehensive in more than 50 years. Authorities conclude that there is no evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations.
Published by the US Department of Defense Pentagon on Friday UFO report according to which no evidence has been found that any investigated UFO sighting is due to the activity of an extraterrestrial civilization.
The report found little empirical evidence that US authorities or private companies ever possessed technology from another civilization to attempt to study.
In addition, according to the report, the Pentagon has investigated the leakers’ claims of secrecy, but found no evidence of that either.
Instead, the report considers it possible that the US’s own secret military development projects have led to suspicions about UFOs.
The report is the most significant report by US authorities on a UFO in more than 50 years. Last time, UFO sightings were evaluated comprehensively in the so-called In the Condon Report in 1968.
The report covers the history of UFO sightings from 1945 until last fall.
In practice, the vast majority of the report is referencing previously known UFO reports. Little new research has been done. The material for the report has been collected through, among other things, 30 interviews.
New technology has been developed for UFO hunting
The report was produced by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
The Pentagon held a background briefing on the report Wednesday for selected reporters, to which AARO’s director Timothy Phillips also introduced a new surveillance technique for detecting unidentified phenomena.
AARO is testing what is known as Gremlin, or goblin in Finnish hardwarewho observed his environment versatilely in different frequency ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum.
AARO has previously said that UFO sightings are often registered electromagnetic radiation at very high frequencies.
According to Phillips, AARO currently receives hundreds of UFO reports a month from the Defense Administration and other authorities. However, the US authorities use the abbreviation UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomenon) instead of the word ufo, which includes all unusual objects that remain a mystery as well in space, in the atmosphere as in water.
The Pentagon’s UFO research is fiercely criticized even in Congress
The long-awaited UFO review has sparked heated debate in the United States even before it was announced.
Even members of Congress have accused the defense administration and the intelligence community of being involved in UFO sightings withholding information.
A secret in addition, AARO’s activities have been publicly criticized for not taking seriously the claims of information leakers.
Worked in federal intelligence agencies David Grusch claimed last summer that the United States is in possession of several non-man-made ships and the bodies of the ships’ crews.
According to Grusch, the matter has been illegally concealed from Congress for decades, which he has reported to the inspection agency of the intelligence community. Grusch has told about his claims both in public and under oath last July in a congressional hearing.
Several members of Congress have said they believe Grusch. One of them is a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Florida Anna Paulina Luna.
– I definitely believe that it is about advanced technology that is not made by humans, Luna said in the February in the interview.
Luna, who is a member of the House Audit Committee, participated in a congressional hearing on Grusch’s allegations in January for a confidential occasion.
The director of UFO research labels the review as conspiracy theories
Former Director of the AARO Agency Sean Kirkpatrick has responded to criticism from Congress quickly. According to him, Grusch has not agreed to share his information with AARO.
Kirkpatrick led AARO until December, so the UFO review has been compiled mainly under his leadership. After his departure, Kirkpatrick issued a stern statement of the articleaccording to which AARO has found no evidence that aliens are behind some of the UFO sightings.
Just two days before the UFO review was published in Scientific American, Kirkpatrick’s latest was published opinion piece, in which he defends the work of his agency. Kirkpatrick labels the review as conspiracy theories, for which he thinks there is no cover.
However, AARO has not only been criticized in Congress, but also within the Defense Administration. Based on the administration’s own assessment, AARO has not met the expectations set for it.
The U.S. Department of Defense’s audit office released the report at the end of January the reportaccording to which the Pentagon still lacks a comprehensive and coordinated system for investigating UFO sightings.
The audit agency believes this deficiency could pose a threat to US national security.
AARO was established in July 2022 after the US Congress set stricter requirements for the Department of Defense to investigate and report UFO sightings.
AARO has published the public versions of its annual reports in January 2023 and in October 2023. They have not brought much additional light to the most extraordinary UFO sightings, some of which have remained unexplained.