Pentagon States There’s No Evidence of Alien Visits to Earth
US Major General Patrick Ryder has emphasized the conclusions from a previous Department of Defense study regarding reported UFO sightings. Read Full Article at RT.com.
There has been no evidence of extraterrestrial presence on Earth, as stated by Pentagon spokesperson Major General Patrick Ryder. In response to a journalist's suggestion that any announcement regarding aliens or extraterrestrial life might go unnoticed amid current news cycles, he emphasized, “The truth is out there… we have no evidence to indicate extraterrestrial life has visited the planet.”
Ryder’s comments aligned with an earlier Pentagon report that dismissed any claims of extraterrestrial existence or conspiracies by the US government to conceal such information. In March, an unclassified document from the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) indicated that it found no evidence of unidentified anomalous phenomena—the military's term for UFOs. Established in 2022, the AARO aims to identify and address reports of UAPs.
Spanning from 1945 to October 2023, this was the most thorough report ever released by the Pentagon on the subject, further denying allegations concerning extraterrestrial spacecraft. Investigators confirmed that no US government initiative or “academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology.”
The report concluded that assertions about clandestine government projects aimed at reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology were based on misinformation, explaining that sightings of flying objects or alien crafts resulted from misidentifying mundane objects.
Despite the Pentagon's declarations that aliens have never visited Earth, these claims have faced skepticism from independent investigators and conspiracy theorists, who believe that the government is concealing evidence of alien life.
In July of last year, three military veterans, including former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch, testified at a Congressional hearing on UFOs. Grusch claimed that the US government had run a covert “multi-decade” reverse-engineering program involving recovered vessels and had obtained non-human “biologics” from alleged crash sites.
When questioned about Grusch’s assertions a month later, a Pentagon spokesperson stated that the Department of Defense “has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”
Last September, the department initiated a website to provide declassified information regarding flying objects, enabling current and former US government employees, service members, and contractors to report details through a private and secure channel.
Navid Kalantari for TROIB News