New US Defense Department Report Found 'No Evidence' of Alien Technology (theguardian.com) 66
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:
The U.S. is not secretly hiding alien technology or extraterrestrial beings from the public, according to a defense department report.
On Friday, the Pentagon 'published the findings of an investigation conducted by the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a government office established in 2022 to detect and, as necessary, mitigate threats including "anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects"....
AARO investigators, which were "granted full access to all pertinent sensitive [U.S. government] programs", reviewed all official government investigatory efforts since 1945. Investigators also researched classified and unclassified archives, conducted approximately 30 interviews, and collaborated with intelligence community and defense department officials responsible for controlled and special access program oversight, the report revealed.
NPR writes that "Many of the sightings turned out to be drones, weather balloons, spy planes, satellites, rockets and planets, according to the report..." "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," Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement Friday. All investigative efforts concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and the result of misidentification, Ryder said... The office plans to publish a second volume of the report later this year that covers findings from interviews and research done between November 2023 and April 2024."
The report finds no evidence of any confirmed alien technology, the Guardian notes: It added that sensors and visual observations are imperfect, the vast majority of cases lack actionable data and such available data is limited or of poor quality. The report also said resources and staffing for such programs have largely been irregular and sporadic and that the vast majority of reports "almost certainly" are the result of misidentification. In addition, the report found "no empirical evidence for claims that the [U.S. government] and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology"...
The report's public release comes as AARO's acting director, Timothy Phillips, told reporters on Wednesday that the US military is developing a UFO sensor and detection system called Gremlin. "If we have a national security site and there are objects being reported that [are] within restricted airspace or within a maritime range or within the proximity of one of our spaceships, we need to understand what that is ... and so that's why we're developing sensor capability that we can deploy in reaction to reports," Phillips said, CNN reports.
On Friday, the Pentagon 'published the findings of an investigation conducted by the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a government office established in 2022 to detect and, as necessary, mitigate threats including "anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects"....
AARO investigators, which were "granted full access to all pertinent sensitive [U.S. government] programs", reviewed all official government investigatory efforts since 1945. Investigators also researched classified and unclassified archives, conducted approximately 30 interviews, and collaborated with intelligence community and defense department officials responsible for controlled and special access program oversight, the report revealed.
NPR writes that "Many of the sightings turned out to be drones, weather balloons, spy planes, satellites, rockets and planets, according to the report..." "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," Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement Friday. All investigative efforts concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and the result of misidentification, Ryder said... The office plans to publish a second volume of the report later this year that covers findings from interviews and research done between November 2023 and April 2024."
The report finds no evidence of any confirmed alien technology, the Guardian notes: It added that sensors and visual observations are imperfect, the vast majority of cases lack actionable data and such available data is limited or of poor quality. The report also said resources and staffing for such programs have largely been irregular and sporadic and that the vast majority of reports "almost certainly" are the result of misidentification. In addition, the report found "no empirical evidence for claims that the [U.S. government] and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology"...
The report's public release comes as AARO's acting director, Timothy Phillips, told reporters on Wednesday that the US military is developing a UFO sensor and detection system called Gremlin. "If we have a national security site and there are objects being reported that [are] within restricted airspace or within a maritime range or within the proximity of one of our spaceships, we need to understand what that is ... and so that's why we're developing sensor capability that we can deploy in reaction to reports," Phillips said, CNN reports.
I'll believe this when I grow up (Score:3, Insightful)
Let me guess. You also believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
Caveat: Are UFOs real? YES! There are plenty of unidentified flying things that confuse us and we don't know what they are.
Are they alien technology? No.
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Let me guess. You also believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
No, but I believe the government should stop wasting money on "reports" that make no difference to anyone.
People who don't believe in aliens will continue to not believe in aliens.
Those who do believe also believe the government is conspiring to hide them and see this report as part of that conspiracy.
We've all seen MIB. We know what's going on.
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If by the gov., you mean the Executive Branch, it wasn't them that decided the military needed to state the bleeding obvious. It was Congress who thought this was a pressing issue that people needed to know about.
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Well put. Government credibility is an oxymoron.
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>Are they alien technology? No.
How do you know? Every time in history we thought we were "the center" it turned out to be wrong.
- Have you even read the report?
- Are you aware what the conclusion of the french report was (COMETA)?
- Are you aware of what the conclusion and recommendations of the united kingdoms report was (Condign)?
- Are you aware of that the there are 700 cases in project blue book that are unidentified, ironically it's the cases with the most data, that couldn't be debunked no matter ho
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My poop turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert
Now that would definitely be alien technology, so I agree we should believe in aliens having visited us once that happens.
but but the SR-71!! (Score:1)
Only interstellar traveling aliens could have told us how to build a kerosene engine atmospheric craft with 1960s analog gauges, and out of titanium alloy with thirteen percent vanadium, eleven percent chromium, and three percent aluminum.
lolz, yeah aliens for aircraft and our computers...
No evidence of dupe found! (Score:3, Informative)
https://news.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
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Not sure if it's a conspiracy or just laziness. It can be hard to tell the difference.
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Maybe the DoD reviewed the evidence again.
Are you sure? (Score:2)
Mosfet transistors are very suspicious, with those "field effects" etc..
Regular transistors i buy that they were invented by humans, but mosfets seem a bit of a stretch
Tubes (Score:5, Funny)
Vacuum tubes are even more suspicious. I mean, why would anyone pump the air out of a glass cylinder and run electricity through a wire in it?
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Or , you know, you could just go and read the research by the people who invented them and learn there was absolutely nothing mysterious about its origins. Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, William Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain wrote extensive papers outlining their theories, and the various iterations it took before Lilenfeld finally got the Mosfet transistor to work in the 1920s.
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Of course that is the case, but when you compare em to regular transistors, they look very futuristic.
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Mosfet transistors are very suspicious, with those "field effects" etc.. Regular transistors i buy that they were invented by humans, but mosfets seem a bit of a stretch
They won’t even tell you this in the data sheet, but mosfets don’t even contain any moss at all. What they are made of is dope AF.
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Yes, we stole this land fair & square. We're not going to let anyone steal it from us.
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There were some important lessons that were learned, though.
1) Don't let too many revolutionary people into your country, or they will, in fact, start a revolution. If they're geographically adjacent to their mother country, they my attempt to get that mother country to annex their newly created country.
2) Don't start wars with geographically adjacent neighbors which you have no fucking chance in hell of winning.
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Ya, imagine legions of people wanting to come here and work. The nerve of them.
Can't be. (Score:2)
If there's no aliens, then how did slashdot obtain the technology to warp time and send us 11 hours into the past? https://news.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
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I have invented time travel. Soon.
https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... [slashdot.org]
That conclusion (Score:2)
is proof positive that the greys control the DoD!
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Pshaw! Everyone knows it's the lizard men.
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Good luck getting Tucker's nose out of Putin's ass so we can ask him.
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How did that big red reset button go?
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We investigated ourselves (Score:1)
And didn't find anything.
What a shocker!
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Unless...there's no there there. You have already determined the only answer you will accept.
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No, I just don't like an entity, especially a government entity, investigating itself. I'm not really sure what the alternative is, but this isn't it.
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And didn't find anything.
What a shocker!
To be fair, that's not what happened.
They found plenty. The difficulty some people are having is that what they found identified previously unidentified items, and identified them as terrestrial in nature. Just like every other investigation, ever. Just like almost every UFO image, ever. When someone with understanding takes the time and effort to investigate the claims and images, they always have mundane explanations from unintuitive lens effects to unintuitive weather effects to human-made technolo
Just peer to peer (Score:2)
CLASSIFIED - EYES ONLY /.
To:
Re: No evidence of UFO anything
I'll believe anything that comes out of the Pentagon on the day they declare Peace On Earth.
Because:
The first rule of War is to win the game through the use of deception.
The second rule of War is that the first rule is a lie and we deny it.
War is Peace is War is Freedom is Slavery is Slavery is Ignorant Strength.
I-man-u-al Silver-stein
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BQEB LQIV PEBQ THX1 1690 OUT
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Please, /. just delete this shit.
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Errr...we're at war with the aliens? Damn, that's another memo I didn't get.
Tired (Score:2)
I'm tired boss. Real tired.
Either this is a psyop or one or more of the other things the government is doing to us/telling us is an outright lie.
Are they trying to get us to kick them out?
So what is it? (Score:1)
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I've heard it said there are pink unicorns, all part of the same government conspiracy.
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Possibilities:
A) We feel sorry for the aliens.
B) We are afraid of the aliens.
C) We are jealous of their stuff.
D) They are already in control but nobody knows it.
E) Some combination of two or more of the above.
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It's more basic than government motives, it's government capability.
The idea that a terrestrial government could hide the arrival of beings who have mastered interstellar travel - which we should assume based on the laws of physics is never going to be practical for frivolous things like getting bored on a random Sunday and popping over to another planet to mutilate some cows or some heavy assplay with the local dominant species - is simply not credible.
You tell me a giant colony ship is heading our way fro
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They didn't cross the universe in a flying saucer; they have portals.
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I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.
What I mean is, the government is run by aliens, and they don't want us--the common people--to know. Ah, but the truth came out, in the movie The Arrival (the 1996 film of that title, in which we find that NASA is run by the aliens--not the more recent movie).
If aliens DID exist they'd never tell you (Score:2)
Obviously. Think about it. They'd lose any advantage; they'd tip off our opponents; they'd undermine their own authority; they'd lose the ability to monetize; etc. No, no, showing your hand like that is a dumb move.
If they do exist... (Score:2)
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Just another excuse to waste our tax dollars (Score:1)
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This just in: I just got off your mom.
Because I reported it, it must have happened!
Please, utilize a little common sense. No airborne cough drops have ever been verified with anything like meaningful evidence.
Also, do you really not know about supercavitating torpedo [wikipedia.org]es?
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Thanks for your sterling arguments.
"Because I reported it, it must have happened!"
Um, government military report with photo documentation of lozenge craft on IR good enough? Wide distribution of military aricraft sensor screen shots not good enough?
Supercavitating? 230 miles per hour is not speed of sound as detected by our subs.
Now go have another drink and let the big boys play ball. Or go back to your desk at the Pentagon.
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The amazing movements of the various lozenges have been pretty convincingly shown to be a mixture of confusion over parallax and the limits of FLIR gimbal motion.
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The Inmates Run the Asylum (Score:1)
Of course they "found no evidence". Big surprise. Everybody knows the DOD has already been taken over by the aliens.
They are ignoring Richard Hoagland & Art Bell (Score:1)
New ToS from the government ... (Score:2)
... transparency to We the People is our number one priority and, though we have all but eliminated alien bullshit, we will create a new police force that will protect our assets from aliens as an extra layer of reassurance.
Any information collected by these alien detectors will be shared with police, armed forces, and targeted advertising agents. We the People will bear all costs.
As usual, this is distracting from the real issue. (Score:2)
We need to stop concentrating on whether something was a UFO or a test plane.
What we need to concentrate on is the government knowing it was a test plane and then denying it. All the while people who thought they saw something else were incarcerated in jail or mental institutions. Yes, this happened A LOT in certain places especially during the 1940-60s.
That's very much a criminal act on the part of the government. Were reparations ever made to these people or their families?
The problem with lying for convenience (Score:2)
Here we see yet another reason why lying for convenience in the short run causes larger problems in the long run. Now, nobody will ever believe that we were never visited by aliens. Fucking morons. Be honest, even when it is difficult. It makes later life so much more pleasant.
And this demonstrates why in 200 years, the Holocaust will be thought of to be a myth that was made up. Because lies flow so easily out of our mouths today. The corruption has reached intolerable levels. What the fuck people?
The report claiming no evidence of ET is a lie (Score:1)
DoD/AARO's report claiming no evidence of ET is a lie
This week a historical report about the UFO phenomena was released by AARO. It is surprising that the report contains no scientific evidence of any kind. Here are some of the blatant faults and omissions in the report:
- At the press briefing after presenting the report to a select group of journalists, all of whom only reported the conclusions of the report, Phillips said the AARO was never denied access to any facility. But AARO doesn't have Title 50 aut