The All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has released the first volume of its report on its investigation into the historical record of government involvement with unidentified flying objects, as mandated in the Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA 2023). The two main conclusions made in the report, titled Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume I, are that, in its investigations, “AARO found no evidence that… UAP represented extraterrestrial technology,” and that they also “found no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.”
Released to the public on March 8, this declassified version of the report is the first part of a two-volume report: volume one outlines the findings of AARO’s investigations into the government’s dealings with UAP covering the period from 1945 to October 31, 2023; although the release date for volume two has yet to be announced, it will cover AARO’s investigations into more recent UAP reports.
Although this is not the first time that AARO has publicly stated this, the report says that “AARO found no evidence that any USG investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology.” It goes on to say that upon investigation most UAP “were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” and that “if more and better quality data were available” for the cases that remain unsolved, that they “also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena.”
Although the report doesn’t deny the existence of UAP—just that they haven’t found any indication that they’re extraterrestrial—AARO’s findings on alleged reverse-engineering programs is much more succinct, saying that such endeavors do not exist.
“AARO assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not exist; are misidentified authentic, highly sensitive national security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology exploitation; or resolve to an unwarranted and disestablished program,” the report states.
The “unwarranted and disestablished program” being referenced was a proposal for a UAP reverse-engineering program called “Kona Blue” that was made to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sometime in the 2010s. This “Prospective Special Access Program” (PSAP) was reportedly proposed to DHS by the “supporters” of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AAWSAP) and Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) after those endeavors concluded in 2012. Although the report says that the proposal gained enough “initial traction at DHS” to warrant making it a PSAP, the project “was eventually rejected by DHS leadership for lacking merit.”
“It is critical to note that no extraterrestrial craft or bodies were ever collected—this material was only assumed to exist by KONA BLUE advocates and its anticipated contract Performers,” according to the report.
“UAP Caucus believes it is crucial for journalists and producers to approach AARO’s report with a critical eye and not simply accept the Pentagon’s narrative at face value,” according to a press release posted on the UAP/C website. “The DoD has a documented history of obfuscation on this issue, and it is the responsibility of the media to ask tough questions and hold those in power accountable.”
There are also allegations that the Department of Defense has been stacking the deck with Pentagon-friendly journalists in order to avoid having to face those tough questions during the report’s March 6 press release. Journalist Ross Coulthart alleges that Defense Department Spokesperson Susan Gough “has been going around corralling select members of the media, and inviting them to be the ones who can… [speak] to the Pentagon on that issue.” Coulthart believes that he and NewsNation were not amongst the journalists invited to the release because “we’re asking the hard questions,” and that reporters that “rattle the cage on this issue and cause too many hard questions to be asked, they don’t get invited back to those Pentagon briefings.”
“And so what the Pentagon’s trying to do is to control the narrative,” Coulthart continued in his interview on NewsNation. “They’re trying to constrain what people are allowed to know out there in the public.”
Veteran UFO investigator Nick Pope was far blunter in his assessment of the report when remarking on what he had learned about the classified version of the report, delivered to congress in early February.
“This is Volume One of AARO’s Historical Record Report?” the former head of the UK Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk posted in a February 12 tweet. “Roswell was just a weather balloon? We found no evidence of any legacy crash retrieval or reverse engineering programs? We couldn’t verify any of the whistleblower testimony? Really? This is just a load of debunking cr*p!”
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As I read this article, I thought about that old WWII myth about carrots helping you see better in the dark. While carrots are good for you, we know now that they aren’t nature’s night-vision goggles, that was just something said by the UK and US to cover up their state-of-the-art radar. They weren’t even sure if the Germans bought their fib, but they were going to keep saying it anyway.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/
Wholly buying into this report and accepting it at face value feels like stockpiling a ton of carrots to me. Saying it’s the whole truth is just throwing all those carrots in a boiler and calling it a pot roast. Where are they hiding the meat and potatoes?
Wow, thanks, I didn’t know about this.
What a gut-wrenching insult to all who have carefully followed this topic for many decades. Pathetic in the extreme. The truth will out…eventually.
Although overall this seems like a pack of lies, I have to wonder, just a little, if their saying there’s no evidence that the UAPs are extraterrestrial means that they have evidence that they are something else….
I’ve downloaded the AARO report but haven’t had time to read it yet, and will be looking for anything it might say that is anything other than “Nothing to see here, folks.”