Pentagon study claims no sign of alien life in UFO sightings
WASHINGTON: A Pentagon study released on Friday that examined reported sightings of UFOs over nearly the last century found no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence, a conclusion consistent with past US government efforts to assess the accuracy of claims that have captivated public attention for decades.
The study from the Defence Department’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office analysed US government investigations since 1945 of reported sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena, popularly known as UFOs.
It found no evidence that any of them were signs of alien life, or that the US government and private companies had reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology and were hiding it.
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” said the report, which was mandated by Congress.
Another volume of the report focused on more recent research will be out later. US officials have endeavoured to find answers to legions of reported UFO sightings over the years, but so far have not identified any actual evidence of extraterrestrial life.
A 2021 government report that reviewed 144 sightings of aircraft or other devices apparently flying at mysterious speeds or trajectories found no extraterrestrial links, but drew few other conclusions and called for better data collection.
The issue received fresh attention last summer when a retired Air Force intelligence officer testified to Congress that the US was concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects.