AARO Report Claims No Evidence Found to Confirm Existence of Extraterrestrial Technology or Reverse-Engineering Programs

A new report from the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released last week claims the office found “no evidence that any [United States Government (USG)] investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology,” and furthermore, has found “no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.”

UAP is the current government nomenclature for UFOs.

These findings stand in stark contrast to the testimony given by whistleblower David Charles Grusch at a congressional hearing held last summer.

“I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program, to which I was denied access,” Grusch testified.

Grusch is a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) from 2019 to 2021. Then, from late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA's co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.

The UAPTF was later replaced by AARO.

Grusch said that information regarding the recovered craft has been illegally withheld from Congress and he has filed a complaint alleging that he has been the victim of illegal retaliation for his confidential disclosures.

He described the retaliation as “very brutal.”

“It hurt me both professionally and personally,” Grusch said.

He went on to say under questioning that he had knowledge of "people who have been harmed or injured" as part of government efforts to conceal information on UFOs, and that he had feared for his life as a result.

“I am hopeful that my actions will ultimately lead to a positive outcome of increased transparency," he said.

Grusch told the committee that recoveries of materials up to and including intact vehicles have been made for decades—and continue to be made—by the U.S. government, its allies, and defense contractors.

Additionally, he said, analysis performed on these materials has determined that they are “of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin) based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures."

Grusch also talked about the recovery of “non-human” entities from UFO crash retrievals.

“As I’ve stated publicly already in my NewsNation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries,” Grusch said.

He added that these "biologics" were “Non-human, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to, that are currently still on the program.”

Grusch’s narrative is supported by congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN).

Burchett, who co-leads the congressional investigation into UFOs, told Newsweek early last year that he believes “we have recovered a craft at some point, and possible beings."

"I think that a lot of that's being reverse engineered right now, but we just don't understand it," he said.

Prior to that statement, Burchett told fellow congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in an interview that he believes the U.S. Government has "recovered craft" that could represent extraterrestrial technology.

However, in a statement published to AARO’s website on Monday, Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder said that in completing the report, “AARO reviewed all official U.S government investigatory efforts since 1945, researched classified and unclassified archives, conducted dozens of interviews, and partnered with Intelligence Community and [Department of Defense (DOD)] officials responsible for controlled and special access program oversight, respectively.”

In doing so, he continued,

AARO has found no verifiable evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have access to or have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology. Also, AARO has found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology. All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification. AARO assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not exist; are misidentified authentic national security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology exploitation; or resolve to a disestablished program.

The goal of AARO's efforts in investigating these claims, Ryder said, "is to use a rigorous analytic and scientific approach."

"AARO has approached this project with the widest possible aperture, thoroughly investigating these assertions and claims without any particular pre-conceived conclusion or hypothesis," he added. "AARO is committed to reaching conclusions based on verifiable evidence. As AARO has said before, they will follow the evidence where it leads, wherever it leads."