Thanks to the media blitz attending Luis Elizondo’s bestselling Imminent: Inside The Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs, there’s a new buzz reinvigorating those unremitting allegations of UFO crash-retrieval/reverse-engineering operations. Wonder how Congress, the Defense Department, and the new director of its UFO PR wing — the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — will weasel out of this one.
Just last March, AARO assured us in writing that the subterranean alien-tech lab storyline was all bullshit. It tried squelching the debate in its “Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena”:
“AARO found no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology,” it wrote. “AARO determined, based on all information provided to date, that claims involving specific people, known locations, technological tests, and documents allegedly involved in or related to the reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial technology, are inaccurate.” Furthermore, said inaccuracies are “the result of circular reporting from a group of individuals . . . who have been involved in various UAP-related endeavors since at least 2009.”
Without citing a single person, known location, technological test or document or specific lead of any kind, the DoD nevertheless hoped this splash of paint might be enough to make suspicious lawmakers buzz off. After all, things got a little tight for dark-world program managers in 2022 when, during the first UFO/UAP hearing on Capitol Hill in more than half a century, Rep. Mike Gallagher submitted the so-called Wilson-Davis Memo into the Congressional Record.
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