Pentagon Report Describes Scrapped Plan To Reverse-Engineer Alien Spacecraft

The truth is still out there, man. (And not being covered up by a highly secretive U.S. government program. Probably.)

A wide-ranging new Pentagon review of decades of classified U.S. government documents on what it calls “unidentified anomalous phenomena” has found no evidence of extraterrestrial activity ― or attempts at a cover-up.

The 63-page report, compiled by the Defense Department’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office and released publicly Friday, examined classified U.S. programs going back to 1945 and uncovered exactly zero off-world contact.

“AARO assesses that alleged hidden UAP programs either do not exist, or were misidentified authentic national security programs unrelated to extraterrestrial technology exploitation,” AARO acting Director Tim Phillips told reporters at a briefing.

“We assess that claims of such hidden programs are largely the result of circular reporting in which a small group of individuals have repeated inaccurate claims they have heard from others over a period of several decades.”

Many persistent rumors about extraterrestrial aircraft in the U.S. government’s possession appear to have originated from sightings of real U.S. military technology in development.

One person interviewed by the AARO, for instance, claimed to have witnessed alien technology being tested at a government facility. In reality, the report found it “almost certainly was an observation of an authentic, non-UAP-related, technology test that strongly correlated in time, location, and description provided in the interviewee’s account.”

Another rumor concerning a military officer who described, in detail, physically touching an off-world spacecraft was instead found to have touched an F-117 Nighthawk, the world’s