No evidence that U.S. covered up existence of UFOs, Pentagon report says

No credible evidence exists that U.S. authorities covered up extraterrestrial life, in the form of unidentified flying objects, even if some Americans firmly believe in UFOs, a Pentagon report said Friday.

The report offered a number of explanations of what has led to more than 40% of Americans thinking that life forms from another galaxy have visited earth.

"Investigative efforts determined that most sightings were the result of misidentification of ordinary objects and phenomena," according to the conclusion of a 63-page report on "unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)."

"Although many UAP reports remain unsolved, AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office)assesses that if additional, quality data were available, most of these cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena."

Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, a defense department spokesperson, insisted there's "no verifiable evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have access to or have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology."

"Also, AARO has found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology," he added. "All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification."

But Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat ID Program, took issue with Friday's report, especially its strident language rejecting all possible UAP evidence.

"The government has documentation, stacks upon stacks, of UAP going back decades, interfering with our critical