UFOs in storage? Findings about alien technology from exhaustive Pentagon review

[brooklynite]

Source: ABC News

A wide-ranging Pentagon review of decades of U.S. government investigations into UFO sightings has found no evidence that any of the sightings were extraterrestrial in origin and also found no evidence that the U.S. government or private companies have ever possessed extraterrestrial technology that has been secretly reverse-engineered.

The review of U.S. government records dating back to 1945 was conducted by the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) which over the past two years has integrated the U.S. government's investigations into UFO or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) incidents, as required by Congress because of renewed interest as to whether they are extraterrestrial in origin.

"AARO has found no verifiable evidence that any UAP sighting has represented extraterrestrial activity," Tim Phillips, AARO's acting director, told reporters ahead of the 63-page unclassified report's public release on Friday.

"AARO has found no verifiable evidence that the U.S. government or private industry has ever had access to extraterrestrial technology,' he added. "AARO.has found no indications that any information was illegally or inappropriately withheld from Congress."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/ufos-storage-findings-alien-technology-exhaustive-pentagon-review/story?id=107899910

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Unless…that’s what they WANT you to think…..

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. There is ZERO evidence of actual alien craft having landed on this planet.

Zero.

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. Zero that we are aware of. There is also ZERO evidence that we are alone in the universe.

Whether one believes biblical creation or evolutionary science, either way, why would this be the only planet in the universe with life?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

15. One explanation for why we might be alone is the rare earth hypothesis.

No one knows for sure.

[AnrothElf]

16. There's an ENORMOUS difference ...

Between "there is life on other planets" and "life on other planets have come to Earth".

The speed of light is a universal constant. How, exactly, are these aliens supposed to get here? Generational ships spending thousands and thousands of years to get here, and then what... HIDE?! LOL.

It's all so ridiculous it's impossible to take seriously.

Makes for good sci-fi, though.

[FoxNewsSucks]

17. That's the ridiculous thing.

Just because our current level of technology makes interstellar travel impossible doesn't mean other potential life might be more advanced and capable.

Or that it will be impossible for us in the future.

[tom_kelly]

19. Agree

Your post is a sane one.

The article has brought out some confident, anger tainted responses here.

[AnrothElf]

29. The speed of light is the same everywhere in the universe.

Hence the term "constant".

Look, y'all, I get some of you are really invested in believing in UFOs. Good clean fun! Just don't ask the rest of us to take it seriously. It's not serious.

[DBoon]

53. Traveling faster than light would break most of physics as we know it

Propelling a spacecraft to anywhere near the speed of light would require more energy than any physical process we know of can generate feasibly.

A light sail would come close, but the payload would be the weight of a paperclip.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

24. It wouldn't take thousands of years to travel interstellar at relativistic speeds.

Time dilation shorten the time experienced. You just couldn't go back to the people you knew. Thousands of Earth years passed for them. Where you get energy to move that fast for that long is unknown. Surviving a grain impact during the trip is another non-starter.

Here is a short explanation of the idea:

[AnrothElf]

28. Right... I mean... I've seen Planet of the Apes, too.

But it's all very much sci-fi. The amount of energy it would take to push a rocket into even barely relativistic speeds would be -- forgive the pun -- astronomical to the point of practically impossible.

Fun to think about. Great for sci-fi tech. But not realistic.

Even if some aliens had the ability, it still doesn't address the more crucial point: why bother with all that astronomical expense to get to Earth, and then hide? Add to that the utter lack of any evidence of extraterrestrial visitation and the whole idea becomes ridiculous, again.

[speak easy]

44. " The amount of energy it would take to push a rocket into even barely relativistic speeds"

A slingshot around a black hole ?

[AnrothElf]

49. Sure no problem. Except the nearest black hole is 1500 light years away.

From Wikipedia:

"The nearest known black hole is Gaia BH1, which was discovered in September 2022 by a team led by Kareem El-Badry. Gaia BH1 is 1,560 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus."

So you'd need more than just a mere generational ship merely to get to the relativistic launch point!

Some quick back-of-a-napkin calculations, assuming that we could fly a rocket 10x as fast as Parker Solar Probe, which traveled at 364,660 mph. So let's say 3,646,600 mph to be generous to our future selves...

1 light year = 5.878606e+12 miles
d = 1,560 ly = 9.170625E+15 (9,170,625,360,000,000 or 9.17 quadrillion) miles
v = 3,646,600 mph
t = d/v ~= 2514842692 hours ~= 287,083 years

Just sayin'... Homo sapiens emerged as a species less than 287,083 years ago. That's a long ass damn time.

[Think. Again.]

31. Why are you assuming...

...that an alien lifeform would have the same time limitations that our lifespans impose on us?

Unless you know something we don't know?

(That last part was just an attempt at light humor.)

[AnrothElf]

37. Heheh I'm not the one making assumptions

Just pointing out some inconvenient facts.

[PufPuf23]

42. There is a big assumption that an "alien life form" and humanity would even notice each other

when occupying the same space and time.

The green Earth may be some form of cosmic athlete's foot.

Don't think that humanity is wired to comprehend nor possess senses or tools to perceive much except the immediate.

Even technology looks and is used like magic to most humans.

[Think. Again.]

43. Well said.

[WheelWalker]

57. "Light Humor" DUzy!

[Think. Again.]

58. You're quick!

[LudwigPastorius]

41. To quote:

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

[AnrothElf]

50. Exactamundo!

[doc03]

56. We couldn't fly a little over 100 years ago. How do we know if the speed of light

is as fast as we can go. We don't know what we don't know. There are billions of planets in this galexy alone
it is highly unlikely this is the only planet with intelligent life. I think there is plenty evidence that UFOs exist
but no proof they are from another planet. How did people thousands of years ago build things that would be nearly
imposible to build today? We have cranes in a steel mill that can lift 450 tons but it requires electric motors and
huge steel cables just to move somethig a few feet? How did they cut and transport stone that weighed 100s of tons with ropes and slaves? There may life on other plants thousands of years more advanced than we are.

[Ray Bruns]

20. "There is ZERO evidence of actual alien craft having landed on this planet"

Anyone who denies that UFO’s are alien in nature are part of the conspiracy to hide the fact that UFO’s are alien in origin.

https://m.

[speak easy]

45. Anyone who says that UFO's are alien in nature

are part of the big conspiracy to hide the fact that UFO’s are not alien in origin.

[skamaria]

26. Somebody dropped off Marjorie Taylor, Greene!😂

[getagrip_already]

2. Thats exactly what the aliens would want them to say....

Very suspicious denial.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Is fun to wonder about

But the idea that aliens are visiting us is just so remote it's not even in the realm of reasonable.

[Think. Again.]

32. That's true, how often does anybody...

....just walk up to a strangers front door and introduce themself for no reason.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. That's exactly what I would expect to hear

from a government under ET mind control

[wolfie001]

10. Why does Donald Sutherland immediately come to mind?

Hmm!

[Kennah]

5. The truth is out there

And the truth is likely that this has been one of the longest-running psychological warfare operations by leading people to believe that a balloon intended to detect nuclear explosions crashing was actually an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

[relayerbob]

6. They can't even cover up a blow job

Why do people think a government that leaks info like a sieve could withhold that for 80 years?

[Think. Again.]

33. "They can't even cover up a blow job"...

...that we know of.

[wolfie001]

8. 40 years ago when these conspiracy theories on the building of the pyramids....

....started taking off, it always struck me as racist thinking. Like, those people over there could never, ever have the intelligence and fortitude to build those great works. 25 billion smart devices in the world and zero footage of an actual alien or spacecraft. Complete tomfoolery if you ask me.

[Archae]

11. Oh yeah. Eric Von Doniken is racist as hell.

Europeans building big stuff?
They could do it.

Brown people though HAD to have alien help.

[wolfie001]

12. Exactly!!!

Makes me sick to think otherwise normal people think like that. I'll bet they all vote republican as well.

[Cartoonist]

52. Can we build the pyramids today?

3D printers not withstanding.

[Archae]

55. Yes, with enough manpower.

Not to mention logs for rolling and olive oil for sliding on.

They were off-season make work projects for the idled (by the Nile floods) farmers.

And those work gangs took great pride in their work, even leaving behind graffiti saying "We did it!"

[yardwork]

60. Exactly.

[Archae]

9. If we were to believe the FTB's, (f****** true believers,)...

Us humans didn't know how to tie our own shoes until aliens taught us how.

The "ancient aliens" bullshit spreaders are pretty obviously either:
Crazy.
Zealots.
Con artists.

Today's alien tech-pushing zealots are still at it, mostly because it's their cash cow.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. It's not about "humans". The gullibles don't understand

The gullibles (including evangullibles and especially magas) don't understand the modern world as well as most of us do. They seek an explanation that doesn't cast them as dimwitted as they actually are.

Thus they latch on to explanations that suppose that all of humanity is as stupid as they are. That makes them feel "gooder".

And the FTB are not -"ing", they are -"ed".

[republianmushroom]

13. B.S.

[Sanity Claws]

18. But I've met them! They are here!

I met one in line at Starbucks.

[speak easy]

46. There's one on the Supreme Court!

[DavidDvorkin]

21. If we had reverse-engineered the technology of aliens advanced enough to have visited Earth

We'd be much further advanced scientifically and technologically than we are.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

39. Thank you, David.

[Marthe48]

22. Why would species able to make hi-tech

crafts that travel across unimaginable distances stop on Earth and build megalithic monuments out of stone?

[Bayard]

23. I Want To Believe

Where do you think velcro and microwaves came from?

[Archae]

35. Answer...

Velcro was invented by a guy observing burrdocks clinging to his dog's fur.

Microwaves were invented by a guy who was experimenting with a small radar source that melted his candy bar.

[Bayard]

38. Party pooper!

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

25. Travel scross the stars takes what is essentially forever for us

The fastest any man-made object ever (unless you count the missing manhole cover from an underground nuclear test that supposedly reached 125,000 mph ( I think it dissipated, a disc of steel or iron on top of a nuclear bomb flame front with a million degree temperature? ) is New Horizons at 36,000 ish MPH. If it was aimed to lead Proxima Centauri so that it hits right where Proxima will be, it will arrive...in 80,000 years. And that's literally the closest star to us in the Alpha Centuari stellar system which is our closest neighbor. The rest? Way more? Way, way more. We won't even speak English or remember NASA in 80,000 years if we are still here.

Setting up spacecraft that can carry stuff to the Moon and Mars from an Earth mounted Beanstalk will help a lot to establish our presence out there. [link:https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/11/examining-buzz-aldrin-roadmap-mars/|..

[LeftInTX]

27. All these sightings only have one explanation:

Jeebus



Now, the butter on my toast looks like Virgin Mary. I'm gonna call the media.

[JoseBalow]

30. Did a vehicle come from somewhere out there?

Did a vehicle come from somewhere out there?
Just to land in the Andes?
Was it round, and did it have, a motor?
Or was it something different?

Did a vehicle fly along the mountains
And find a place to park itself?

Or did someone build a place
To leave a space
For such a thing to land?

Did a vehicle come from somewhere out there?
Did the Indians, first on the bill
Carve up the hill?

[Archae]

36. Those lines...

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nazca_lines

[grumpyduck]

51. Meh.

Those Jewish space lasers again.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

34. Biggest PsyOp in American history.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

40. Correct. ZERO evidence of aliens.

Zero.

Those of you who claim there really are aliens who have visited, show us the proof.

[Aussie105]

47. All those science fiction series . . .

Can't all be works of fiction, right?

I mean . . . 10 years of the series 'Stargate' and no one called out it was bogus?

I'm sure there are some Stargates on this planet, somewhere.
There are a few spots on Google Earth that are blanked out, after all.

[Prairie_Seagull]

48. Huge sci-fi fan since I was a kid. I too, want to believe.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Segan. RIP

Subjective? Sure. But we will know it when we see it.

[Charlie Chapulin]

54. Klaatu barada nikto

[EarthFirst]

59. Someone should press TFG on it...

If there’s classified info on it; he might be privy to information he cannot keep his yap shut about…