- The 63-page unclassified report was said to be released on Friday.
- A classified version was also provided to authorized members of Congress.
The Pentagon’s embattled but official UFO investigations office on Friday released its congressionally mandated report on “historic” UFO cases dating back to 1945.
The report, which was submitted in classified and unclassified formats, and is not yet available to the general public online, states that the bureau found “no verifiable evidence that any UAP (UFO) sightings represented extraterrestrial activity.” .
But it did reveal at least one top-secret project proposal, dubbed ‘Kona Blue,’ reviewed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the 2010s, and presented as an effort to reverse engineer hypothetically recovered extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Tim Phillips, acting director of the Pentagon’s UFO hunt All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), told reporters that the new report casts doubt on the public testimony of the UFO whistleblower and former intelligence officer. American David Grusch.
“AARO has found no verifiable evidence that the US government or private industry has ever had access to extraterrestrial technology,” Phillips told select journalists in a closed environment that other journalists and UFO researchers criticized for its lack of transparency.
The Pentagon’s embattled but official UFO investigations office on Friday released its congressionally mandated report on “historic” UFO cases dating back to 1945. Above, the office’s first director, the former CIA laser physicist , Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick.
“It is critical to note that no extraterrestrial ships or bodies were ever collected; KONA BLUE proponents and their anticipated contract artists only assumed this material existed,” according to the new report.
The ‘Kona Blue’ proposal, according to Phillips, was rejected by DHS leaders ‘due to lack of merit.’ No otherworldly ships, he said, were recovered through the planned effort.
A provocation of months has preceded that of AARO. ‘Historical log report‘ on UFOs since the retirement of the office’s first director, former CIA laser physicist Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, last December.
Dr. Kirkpatrick appeared on CNN analyst Peter Bergen’s podcast, ‘In the room,’ late last January, amid significant press pressure, revealing that his office intended to double down on the Air Force’s evidence-poor explanation for the 1947 Roswell UFO case.
Multiple former NASA scientists, as well as former US Air Force personnel, including the Air Force colonel who authored the Pentagon’s official 1994 Roswell report, have cast doubt on the ‘spy balloon’ explanation. that Dr. Kirkpatrick and AARO maintain is correct.
Phillips, Dr. Kirkpatrick’s designated successor, described Friday’s release of AARO’s landmark review as the most comprehensive government investigation into U.S. government UFO records, classified and unclassified, ever conducted.
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