'Nothing To See Here Folks.' Pentagon Shuts Down UFO Disclosure. Again.

Last week the DoD released its Pentagon UFO report titled "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume I."

And it's pissing a lot of people off.

This is the report that UFOlogists far and wide have been sitting on pins and needles for since the establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) back in 2022.

Various military leaks over the past couple of years showing new video evidence of UFOs as well as whistleblowers coming forward prompted many in the disclosure community to anticipate more openness on the subject.

This report shut all that down quicker than a UAP making a tight turn in midair pursuit.

Reactions on social media were what one would expect.

UFO researcher Jeremy Corbell was aghast, posting on X: "Taking my time with this horseshit."

Uri Geller (Spoon Bender) posted: "I’m absolutely quivering and fuming with anger! Why? Because the American government’s AARO . . . has delivered a massive pile of hot, steaming Bull S***!!!"

Others are taking a more nuanced approach, weighing issues of defense. Former Theil managing director Eric Weinstein posted: "I want to think carefully before saying more. I am not unsympathetic to US National Security needs in this."

Weinstein goes on to cite over thirty "search strings" of research he was hoping to see covered in the report, including Gravity Research Foundation, Institute for Field Physics, "Glenn L Martin Company," etc. He found non of it.

He concludes that the report covers a mere subset of the phenomenon, one which has mass appeal to the "UFO Community" but non raised by PhD level researchers.

He surmises the outing to be mostly a Limited Hangout.

So what's in the report?

It purports to be a review of all United States Government (USG) investigatory efforts, both classified and unclassified, into the phenomenon since 1945.

About 30 people were interviewed.

This is the first of two volumes. The second volume promises to provide analysis of data acquired by AARO since the publication of Volume 1.

It is impressive to see the report tackle the fundamental issue straight ahead:

“A particularly persistent narrative that the USG—or a secretive organization within it—recovered several off-world spacecraft and extraterrestrial biological remains, that it operates a program or programs to reverse engineer the recovered technology, and that it has conspired since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United States Congress and the American public.”

It promises to use a “rigorous analytic and scientific approach” to get to the bottom of the mystery of whether or not USG contractors have recovered and are hiding off-world technology and biological material.

So what did they find? The quick answer is nothing.

According to the report, “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.”

What about all the lights in the sky and weird objects people are seeing around the world?

All the investigative efforts have found that these sightings were ordinary objects resulting in misinformation. And as the report admits, “all official foreign UAP investigatory efforts to date have reached the same general conclusions as USG investigations.”

It’s the same old song and dance all over again. Swamp gas. Weather balloons,

Will-o'-the-wisp.

Nothing to see here folks. Move along now.

But again, I am impressed that the government took the time and effort, and our tax payer dollars, to work on this matter. Fairy tale or not.

It means one of two things. Either they are right, and there is nothing “extraterrestrial” going on.

Or the opposite is true and are doing the darnedest to keep the lid on. The conspiracy "since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United States Congress and the American public,” effectively still in effect.

The report acts like Morpheus' blue pill, for those who need it.

You wake up in the morning, in your bed, and the world is the same. Carry on.

Of course the Pentagon has no obligation to reveal their secrets to us. I'm not sure why anyone expects them to do so. In fact they have a mandate to keep their mouths shut.

That would be wise considering the world we live in. We wouldn't want dangerous technologies falling into the hands of our enemies.

Then again it may not be so clear cut as that. Perhaps it would be in the national interest to reveal the existence of extraterrestrials whom are hell bent in manipulating our DNA and what not.

We are stuck in a dilemma.

I have problems with this report. Big problems.

For starters, AARO promises us a review of all the US government's efforts to study the UFO phenomenon since 1945. It accounts for about two dozen separate investigative efforts and analyzes each.

What we get is a basic Wikipedia-like distillation of the program, then a denial of evidence for extraterrestrial technology.

Take the first one, Project SAUCER. It states that General Nathan Twining, Commander of the Air Technical Services Command, established Project SAUCER on December 30, 1947, for the purpose of collecting information on UFOs.

It mentions how Project SAUCER investigated Kenneth Arnold's sighting while flying his airplane near Mount Rainier on June 23, 1947.

It notes how he saw 9 "saucer-like objects" with characteristics as the “tail of a Chinese kite.”

All of this is common knowledge.

Then it jumps to its conclusion, simply: "Project SAUCER did not find evidence of extraterrestrial technology."

There is no explanation nor analysis given.

At a Pentagon briefing on March 8, 2024, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Major General Pat Ryder was asked by a journalist "Why did the Pentagon plan to study off world technology if it says it doesn't have any proof?"

The General answered:

"What we found is that claims of hidden programs are largely the result of circular reporting by a small group, repeating what they heard from others and that many people have sincerely misinterpreted real events from mistaken sensitive U.S. programs as UAP or being extraterrestrial exploitation."

This may be true but unfortunately the same could be said about the government. That is, their claims "are largely the result of circular reporting by a small group, repeating what they heard from others and that many people have sincerely misinterpreted real events . . ."

References:

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-CLEARED-508-COMPLIANT-HRRV1-08-MAR-2024-FINAL.PDF

Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder on the Historical Record Report

Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder issued a statement on the Historical Record Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume 1.

U.S. Department of Defense

Pentagon study finds no sign of alien life in reported UFO sightings going back decades

A new Pentagon study that examined reported sightings of UFOs over nearly the last century has found no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence.

PBS NewsHourEric Tucker, Associated Press

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office - Wikipedia

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Andrew K. Arnett is a writer and producer. He has been published in Paranoia Magazine, New Dawn, Nexus, Konbini and Alien Buddha Press. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and hunts ghosts with the Brooklyn Paranormal Society. Find him on Twitter: @AndrewArnett

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