Here’s a couple of quotes from the AARO report that are worth reading:
AARO has no evidence for the USG reverse-engineering narrative provided by interviewees and has been able to disprove the majority of the interviewees’ claims. Some claims are still under evaluation.
The Project BEAR report was based on a statistical analysis of UFO sightings and contained graphs showing their frequency and distribution by time, date, location, shape, color, duration, azimuth, and elevation. It concluded that all cases that had enough data were resolved and readily explainable. The report assessed that if more data were available on cases marked unknown, most of those cases could be explained as well. It also concluded that it was highly improbable that any of these cases represented technology beyond their “present day scientific knowledge.”
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. The first Director of Project BLUE BOOK, Capt Edward Ruppelt, said that all but a couple copies of this estimate were destroyed. AARO has been unable to verify his claim or locate the document.
The French government sponsored three comprehensive investigatory programs: Groupe d’Etude et d’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEPAN, 1977-1987), Service d’Expertise des Phénomènes de Rentrées Atmosphériques (SEPRA, 1988-2004), and a new version called Groupe d’Etudes et d’Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEIPAN) that stood up in 2005. When it dissolved, SERPA concluded that the vast majority of cases possess ordinary explanations, while 28 percent of its caseload remained unresolved.
All of these efforts and reviews concluded that the vast majority of UAP reports could be resolved as any number of ordinary objects, natural phenomena, optical illusions or misidentifications. Many of the cases, however, remain unresolved.
AARO investigated and reached conclusions on the majority of the claims made in these narratives. In most cases, AARO was able to locate the companies, people, and programs that were conveyed to AARO through interviews. AARO will report the results of the unresolved allegations in Volume II.
Although AARO has not been able to recover the alleged film of the ballistic missile reentry vehicle being shot down by a UAP in 1964, AARO was able to correlate the general time and location with an anti-ballistic missile test, which could have been the genesis for this observation.
So in AARO’s own words, many cases remain unresolved and they did not have access to everything that they needed to resolve all of the cases. Pathetic, really. And it seems as though this report was designed to buy them more time to rule out the cases that remain.
The argument has never been that all of the incidents are genuine UAP encounters. The argument has always been that the small number of remaining, unexplained cases are important and need to be investigated without restrictions or conjecture.
Edit: Fixed up formatting with quotes, changed final statement to be more succinct.
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