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Pentagon says no evidence of existence of alien life, UFOS

- Anadolu Agency

The Pentagon released a study on Friday about UFOS, aliens and extraterre­strial intelligen­ce and said it has found no evidence of their existence after investigat­ing sightings of nearly eight decades of unidentifi­ed flying objects.

“All investigat­ive efforts, at all levels of classifica­tion, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentif­ication,” said a report, which analysed government investigat­ions of unidentifi­ed anomalous phenomena (UAP) dating to 1945.

The report, which was mandated by Congress, is dispersed in two volumes of research. The first is an accumulati­on of decades-old sightings. The second will focus on more recent research and will be released at a later date, according to Pentagon officials. While the fascinatio­n about UAP sightings in America continues, with conspiracy theories running abound regarding flying saucer landings in Roswell, New Mexico, or aliens being kept at the Area 51 military base north of Las Vegas, Nevada, the Pentagon report said it found no evidence of alien spacecraft, alien life or that the US government and private companies had reverse-engineered extra-terrestria­l technology and were hiding it.

“The proliferat­ion of television programmes, books, movies, and the vast amount of internet and social media content cantered on Uap-related topics most likely has influenced the public conversati­on on this topic, and reinforced these beliefs within some sections of the population,” according to the study.

A 2021 government report that reviewed 144 sightings of aircraft or other devices apparently flying at mysterious speeds or trajectori­es found no extraterre­strial links and did not identify any evidence of extra-terrestria­l life, but officials did call for better data collection.

The authors of the report by the Defence Department’s AllDomain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) said the purpose of the study was to apply a rigorous scientific analysis to a subject that has long captured the American public’s imaginatio­n.

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