The United States has never recovered an alien body or a spaceship

The United States government has long been accused of concealing evidence that alien life exists but a new report revealed that Washington has never actually encountered life or technology that originates from another world. 

A long-awaited Department of Defense report reviewing classified documents from 1945 to 2023 was submitted to Congress on March 8th according to Live Science, and the findings were likely extremely disappointing for any believers in alien cover-ups.

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The biggest finding of the report was the revelation that the U.S. government isn’t hiding any aliens or spaceships. But Washington did have a program to reverse-engineer alien technology back in the 2010s if it ever came across such technology. 

More importantly, the report found no evidence that the United States had encountered life from another planet or tried to cover up the existence of extraterrestrials. But that was not the only big revelation made by the new report. 

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Unidentified flying objects, more often abbreviated as UFOs and known in government circles officially as unidentified aerial phenomenons (UAPs), that were seen back in the 1960s were determined to be prototype spy planes and spacecraft. 

Moreover, the report concluded that no sighting of any unidentified aerial phenomenon was the result of extraterrestrial technology and rather could be explained as “ordinary objects or phenomena and the result of misidentification.”

The report also explained that many unsolved or unidentified sightings of UAPs would be “resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena” if more and better data regarding the incidents were available to research teams. 

“The vast majority of reports almost certainly are the result of misidentification and a direct consequence of the lack of domain awareness,” the report read, adding that a case’s lack of data corresponded with an inability to conclusively resolve it. 

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The report was written by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and it reviewed classified and unclassified documents, conducted dozens of interviews, tested alleged alien materials, and investigated UFO sightings. 

One of the most interesting aspects of the AARO report was its investigation of several claims, including everything from private companies reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology to a claim that a military officer touched an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 

The AARO report also addressed the popular cultural belief that the government, or a secret group operating within it, had recovered off-world spacecraft as well as biological alien remains and has been working to keep it secret since the 1940s. 

"AARO recognizes that many people sincerely hold versions of these beliefs” the report explained, adding that its goal was not to disprove beliefs but to use a “rigorous analytic and scientific approach to investigate past USG-sponsored UAP investigation efforts." 

However, the AARO report made it clear there was "no verifiable evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have access to or have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology," according to a statement from Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder. 

The report is only the first volume but it covers all information acquired prior to November 2023. A second volume examining information received after November 2023 will eventually be published and will include new information from current and former government personnel.

Popular Mechanics pointed out that there is also a classified version of the ARRO report but noted it is unlikely to have anything new or different from the unclassified version. The difference was probably done to protect sensitive and secret programs as well as the people involved in them, the magazine noted. 

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The United States has spent decades “deflecting, debunking and discrediting” accounts of UFOs and other phenomena dating back to the 1940s according to Retuers. Maybe this time the public will believe the U.S. government's findings.