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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., 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.
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.
And in a blow to claims the U.S. government and private contractors are in possession of exotic metal materials from space, a sample of a supposed crashed spacecraft provided to AARO was found to be made of “a manufactured, terrestrial alloy” made of normal Earth elements like magnesium and zinc.describe a 2010-era Department of Homeland Security proposal codenamed “Kona Blue” that would have attempted to acquire and reverse-engineer an off-world spacecraft.
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