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Pentagon report rules out UFO cover-up, but the debate goes on - C C - Mar 10, 2024
https://www.universetoday.com/166077/pentagon-rules-out-uap-ufo-coverup/
INTRO: The Pentagon office in charge of investigating UFO reports — now known officially as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs — today provided its most detailed explanation for what it said were false or misconstrued claims of alien visitations over the decades.
The first volume of a historical record report released by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, in response to a congressional mandate did include a fresh disclosure: During the 2010s, U.S. government officials considered a proposed program code-named “Kona Blue” that would have looked into the possibility that extraterrestrial technology could be reverse-engineered. But the Department of Homeland Security rejected the idea because it lacked merit, the report said.
“It is critical to note that no extraterrestrial craft or bodies were ever collected — this material was only assumed to exist by Kona Blue advocates and its anticipated contract performers,” according to the report. The same assumptions were made by outside investigators who delved into UAP reports as part of an earlier Pentagon-funded program, AARO said.
One of the investigators involved in that program — which was known as the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program or the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AAWSAP/AATIP) — made clear that he’d continue trying to keep the alien angle in the public eye.
“Today the Pentagon and its current UAP investigative program, AARO, issued a public report that is intentionally dishonest, inaccurate and dangerously misleading,” Lue Elizondo, who helped spark renewed interest in UFO reports in 2017, said in a posting to X / Twitter. “Myself and others who are aware of the truth are going to keep working to help Congress in their efforts to achieve disclosure.”
But Mick West, a retired software engineer who specializes in analyzing UFO/UAP reports, said the newly released report shows how a belief in alien phenomena can be self-reinforcing. “A belief in the supernatural … is what led to the current UFO flap that AARO is trying to pour cold water on,” West said on X / Twitter..... (MORE - details)
RE: Pentagon report rules out UFO cover-up, but the debate goes on - Magical Realist - Mar 11, 2024
If there ever was a ufo cover-up by the us govt, getting them to conduct their own internal investigation would be like having the Mafia performing its own audit on itself. Why would the us govt EVER admit such a thing if the whole program was top secret black ops?
RE: Pentagon report rules out UFO cover-up, but the debate goes on - Zinjanthropos - Mar 12, 2024
(Mar 11, 2024 11:28 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: If there ever was a ufo cover-up by the us govt, getting them to conduct their own internal investigation would be like having the Mafia performing its own audit on itself. Why would the us govt EVER admit such a thing if the whole program was top secret black ops?
For the conspiracy theorist: Maybe US Govt is in contact with ET and this UFO report release is a diversionary tactic designed to keep real truth quiet.
RE: Pentagon report rules out UFO cover-up, but the debate goes on - Yazata - Mar 12, 2024
(Mar 11, 2024 11:28 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: If there ever was a ufo cover-up by the us govt, getting them to conduct their own internal investigation would be like having the Mafia performing its own audit on itself. Why would the us govt EVER admit such a thing if the whole program was top secret black ops?
I'm doubtful that the US has recovered alien technology.
But as you say, assuming that they have, does anyone in their right mind expect them to suddenly admit it after they've been denying it for decades?
So I'm skeptical about their denials just as I'm skeptical about what they are denying. Whether or not they have evidence of extraterrestrials, I would expect that they would deny it either way. Hence their denials aren't really very informative.
What's more, there's the credibility of the source. I don't trust that the "deep state" is ever telling us the truth. They only tell the public what they want people to believe.