In no particular order:
There was at least one USG proposal—by the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel—to engage in an active “training” and “debunking” effort using various public media tools to steer the public away from reporting UFOs. The proposal… expressing the concern that such reports could create “mass hysteria” to the benefit of the Soviet Union.
Was this to stop hysteria or to denigrate the people witnessing these objects?
At various points in history, individuals inside and outside of the USG, including Dr. J. Allen Hynek, claimed the USAF had a key goal of debunking or explaining away reports of UAP. AARO found no evidence to suggest that the USAF had a policy intended to cover up the evidence of extraterrestrial knowledge, material, or interactions. Rather, the USAF instead sought to focus on what it determined to be more important concerns, such as Soviet technology and U.S. defense readiness. Similarly, at least the first iteration of Project GRUDGE sought to resolve all cases and prohibited its staff from characterizing reports as unknown or unidentified.
This is a contradiction, if you’re not allowed to classify something as unknown that is literally doing what AARO found “no evidence of”, in regards to explaining away reports of UAP.
AARO notes that there was possibly one unofficial estimate stating otherwise. Project SIGN staff allegedly drafted and signed a report that was circulated for review and approval. It was titled: “The Estimate of the Situation” and assessed that at least some UFOs were of “interplanetary” origin. The DoD leadership rejected this report on the basis that it lacked any proof, and it was never published.
That sounds very similar to what pentagon and AARO are doing in this report.
An interviewee who is a former U.S. service member said that in 2009, while participating in a humanitarian and security mission in a foreign country, he encountered “U.S. Special Forces” loading containers onto a large extraterrestrial spacecraft.
It appears that Michael Herrera was interviewed by AARO. Here is his story.
AARO has not discovered any NDAs containing threats to interviewees for disclosing UAP-specific information.
This statement was immediately followed by:
Historically, most if not all NDAs contained standard language stating that the death penalty can be applied for the crime of disclosing classified information. Title 18, Section 794,is referenced in typical NDAs in several places in relation to the transmission of classified information: “Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits…information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life…
They literally cited where you can be put to death for disclosing classified information but are claiming the interviewees lied because it doesn’t specifically mention being executed for leaking documents surrounding UAP…
AARO interviewed and obtained a signed statement from the former CIA official who was specifically named by AARO interviewees. The former official stated he had no knowledge of any aspect of this allegation. The allegation included the claimed crash of the objects, the possession of the resultant material by the USG and the private sector, and the attempt to transfer material that was purported to be of off-world origin. This reverse-engineering program allegedly occurred at the named facility in the 2009-2010 time frame. Interviewees allege that a separate interviewee from the facility attempted to set up a meeting to return material to the USG in 2010, but that the former CIA official stopped the transfer from industry to the USG.The interviewee alleged to have stopped the transfer denied these allegations. The former CIA official stated that he had no knowledge of any extraterrestrial material in the possession of the USG or any other organization. The official signed a Memorandum for the Record (MFR) attesting to the truthfulness of his statements.
“Multiple people interviewed stated that this CIA official stopped the transfer of these materials from industry to the USG but he signed an MFR so theres nothing to see here”. Why didn’t you make the interviewees sign them? Are all of them lying but this CIA official is telling the truth? What?
AARO met with high-ranking officials, including executives and chief technology officers, of the named companies. All denied the existence of these programs, and attested to the truthfulness of their statements on the record.
“We asked them if they committed crimes and they said no, nothing to see here”
Persons 1-5 and Interviewees 1, 3, 9, 12, 13, and 14 have repeatedly voiced these claims in various public and private venues, and they have petitioned Congress in various capacities on UAP issues. They have not provided any empirical evidence of their claims to AARO.
AAROs writes this as if its a bad thing.
noted that the inability to collect the UFO’s altitude, size, and speed was a recurring and significant obstacle to resolving cases. A similar challenge remains today, even with the advancement in technology. Most UAP sightings have no data associated with them beyond an often vague narrative account; and when there is hard data, it is often incomplete or of poor quality. In terms of military reporting, the sensors on which UAP most frequently are captured are calibrated and optimized for combat. UAP are not routinely captured by exquisite, high-definition, multi-capability, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance collection platforms— a threshold which is often required to successfully resolve a case.
Why are they empirically saying that they’ve resolved most cases when they recognize that for the vast majority of cases the data is insufficient? Do they not expect people to read?
There is a conviction among some Americans that the USG has conducted a deception operation to conceal the fact that it has recovered extraterrestrial spacecraft and alien beings as well as systematically exploited and reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology. This perception probably has been fueled by key UFO investigators’ public comments. For example, J. Allen Hynek of Project BLUE BOOK, said that the USAF expected him to perform the role of debunker; and Capt Ruppelt, the first chief of BLUE BOOK, later wrote that he was expected to explain away every report and that the USAF sought to produce press stories in alignment with the USAF’s position.
So is this conviction misplaced despite AARO bringing up multiple instances when there was in fact a deception/debunking campaign?
The goal of this report is not to prove or disprove any particular belief set, but rather to use a rigorous analytic and scientific approach to investigate past USG-sponsored UAP investigation efforts and the claims made by interviewees that the USG and various contractors have recovered and are hiding off-world technology and biological material
Funniest thing in the entire report.
TLDR/Summary:
AAROs historical review boils down to this:
“We don’t have data that can determine what they are but we can determine they aren’t extra terrestrial”
“Multiple interviewees allege CIA official did X, CIA official promises he didn’t do X. Case closed”
“Interviewees lied that they were threatened with death if they leaked UAP information. Despite there being no evidence we will now include a quote that shows they can be put to death if they leak classified information.”
“We asked people if they are hiding extra terrestrial SAPs that we don’t have access to, they said no. Case closed”
I’m probably missing a fair bit but I genuinely hated reading this. The sheer disrespect for those interviewed was exhausting. Robert Salas was completely brushed aside and they barely mentioned his case because they had no rebuttal for it.
Multiple independent individuals corroborated the same story and when AARO went to the person brought up they just denied it. AARO didn’t push any further. This report reeks of corruption and anyone reading it will come to the same conclusion:
“We investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing, case closed”
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