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WASHINGTON – A Pentagon report released on Friday, which delved into reported sightings over nearly a century, did not find evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
The Defense Department’s report detailed its examination of almost 80 years of reports from government agencies and specialized programs concerning unidentified anomalous phenomena, now referred to as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) instead of unidentified flying objects.
According to the report published on March 6, “None of the incidents investigated by AARO were linked to extraterrestrial or off-world technology. While a small percentage of cases exhibited potentially anomalous or concerning features, AARO has consistently kept Congress fully informed of its discoveries.”
The team determined that some sightings since the 1940s were likely due to misidentifications of experimental and operational aerospace, rocket, and aviation systems, including stealth technologies and the increasing use of drone platforms.
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AARO’s investigation also focused on claims suggesting the existence of undisclosed U.S. government programs related to UAP that had not been reported to Congress. The AARO team probed these assertions to verify their validity.
“AARO has concluded that alleged covert UAP programs are either non-existent or were misinterpreted as legitimate national security initiatives unrelated to extraterrestrial technology exploitation,” stated AARO acting Director Tim Phillips during a briefing at the Pentagon.
The report also included assessments of statements provided by approximately 30 individuals interviewed by AARO, including current and former U.S. government personnel who claimed involvement in such programs or had heard accounts about them, potentially misinterpreting the information they received.
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“We want to stress that we believe most individuals sharing these claims did so inadvertently, without any intent to deceive the public,” Phillips emphasized. “Many individuals genuinely misinterpreted actual events or mistakenly associated sensitive U.S. programs, to which they lacked clearance, with UAP or extraterrestrial activities.”
The report concluded that the majority of UAP reports could be explained as “various ordinary objects, natural occurrences, optical illusions, or misidentifications.”
In 2022, the Department of Defense initiated the AARO to investigate mysterious aerial phenomena reported over restricted military airspace in recent decades.
As part of the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers instructed AARO to compile the report. The current report represents the initial volume of AARO’s findings, spanning from 1945 to October 2023. A subsequent volume, slated for release later this year, will encompass research and interviews conducted between November 2023 and April 2024.
Despite years of efforts by U.S. officials to unravel numerous reported sightings, no concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life has been uncovered. A government report from 2021, which reviewed 144 sightings of aircraft or objects allegedly exhibiting mysterious speeds or flight patterns, found no definitive connections and called for improved data collection.
The topic gained renewed attention when a retired Air Force intelligence officer testified to Congress last summer, alleging that the U.S. was concealing a longstanding program dedicated to retrieving and reverse-engineering unidentified flying objects. The Pentagon refuted these claims and stated in late 2022 that the new Pentagon office established to track reports of unidentified flying objects—the same office that released Friday’s report—had received “several hundreds” of new reports but had not found any evidence of alien life thus far.
This report was filed from Los Angeles. The Associated Press contributed.