Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder talks about UFOs/Reuters
We are not in a hurry to conclude that they do not live somewhere in our galaxy or in galaxies far away from us, but according to a report published this weekend by the Pentagon, aliens have never visited Earth. Not in the last decade, not 20-30 years ago and not even in the 80 In recent years, all sightings and reports of UFOs of any kind have been officially dismissed as misidentifications or outright lies.
The Pentagon has released that some of the sightings may be secret military experiments, but it is not something that has an extraterrestrial origin in any way.
Their conclusion, which destroys the fantasy that we will ever meet beings from another planet (or that they are already walking among us), is based on 80 years of observations, of which, according to the Pentagon's All Areas Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), none of them were of aliens. water, extraterrestrial intelligence, or any undetected anomalous phenomenon,
the team combed through recorded sightings from the 1940s to the present day and tested every little thing from rockets to drones with stealth technologies.
The result?
Nada
The office for solving anomalies in all fields "researched and analyzed" reports of decades and found nothing.
The increase in UFO sightings in the 1950s and 1960s was likely caused by testing of advanced American spy planes and space technology, according to a Pentagon report submitted to Congress on Friday.
Officials also said there is "no evidence" that the US government itself has encountered aliens or is hiding them, with most of the sightings they have received being of normal objects of Earth origin.
The report is part of a broad public effort by the US government to examine the issue of UFOs - or as officials call them, "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP). The effort includes public meetings with NASA officials and congressional hearings.
The report states: "Of all the reports that AARO has investigated and analyzed, none of them represent extraterrestrial technology. A small percentage of the cases have unusual characteristics or characteristics that lead to such a potential. AARO updated the full findings to Congress."
"A particularly persistent narrative," the researchers said, "is that the government found alien spaceships and remains and decided to keep its alien research activities secret."
A Pentagon spokesman said officials approached the report in an open manner, but simply found no evidence of extraterrestrial visitors. "All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most of the sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification," said the general, a spokesman The Pentagon, Patrick Ryder.
According to a 2021 Gallup poll, just over 40% of Americans believe alien spacecraft have visited Earth, up from 33% in just two years. The AARO team examined archives and classified files and reviewed all official government investigations since 1945 and they believe that many of the reports were not made maliciously or with the aim of misleading the public.
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The researchers focused on common rumors about alien spaceships and found, for example, that an alleged 1961 leak about UFOs was not authentic, and that an "alien spaceship" sample collected by an independent organization investigating the UAP was not made of material from another planet, but was made mostly of magnesium , zinc and bismuth. The report details new technologies tested over the years including high-altitude balloons - which have inspired waves of UFO speculation, including the Roswell, New Mexico, incident in 1947 and those related to the U-2 spy plane. More than half of the UFO reports Water explored at the time was determined to be U.S. reconnaissance flights, according to an assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Several secret research projects involved the development of saucer-shaped aircraft - consistent with the image of alien spaceships in popular culture - such as the Canadian VZ-9AV Avroca, which was designed to take off and land vertically.
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Although the Cold War accelerated technological development, the report noted that "UFO content in popular culture is more prevalent than ever," a trend researchers attribute to distrust of the U.S. government and the popularity of alien-related content on social media. The UAP sightings come at a pace of 50 to 100 a month, according to the AARO, and speculation about government cover-up experiments continues.
The AARO has promised to release another report examining more recent sightings and rumors at a later date.
Pentagon officials realized that their research would not reduce the tide of rumor and belief about foreign visitors.
"The proliferation of TV shows, books, movies, and the vast amount of online and social media content about UAP has likely influenced the public discourse on this topic, reinforcing these beliefs among some segments of the population," the report said.
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