AARO Report Feb 2024

 

The latest long unawaited AARO report has dropped... like a feather onto some bubble wrap. See here for details of the previous one: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/01/uap-report-2022-livestream.html. I was actually in the middle of a HPANWO TV livestream when it did, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/03/mh370-ten-years-livestream.html, and I didn't even stop to look. This report is considerably longer than the last one, sixty-three pages. It was accompanied by a press conference at the Pentagon, but only for approved media representatives. Pro-ET platforms like News Nation and Veterans Today were banned. The report's rather pompous full title is: Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume I. Does this mean a volume two is on the way? The first five pages are the cover and contents. This time the entries in the contents are hyperlinked, a necessity with such a lengthy document. As before, they waste space by ending sections with small orphaned lines at the top of blank pages. To begin with it seems hopeful. This passage appears in the introduction: "A consistent theme in popular culture involves a particularly persistent narrative that the USG (US government), or a secretive organization within it, recovered several off-world spacecraft and
extraterrestrial biological remains, that it operates a programme or programmes to reverse engineer the recovered technology, and that it has conspired since the 1940's to keep this effort hidden from the United States Congress and the American public. AARO recognizes that many people sincerely hold versions of these beliefs which are based on their perception of past experiences, the experiences of others whom they trust, or media and online outlets they believe to be sources of credible and verifiable information. The proliferation of television programs, books, movies, and the vast amount of internet and social media content centred on UAP-related topics most likely has influenced the public conversation on this topic, and reinforced these beliefs within some sections of the population." As you know, I am one of the people they're taking about, one who most firmly believe this, and I have good reason.
 
It does come across in the first dozen or so pages that AARO is upping its game. It has interviewed a number of military and intelligence insiders. It doesn't name these individuals, but most people familiar with contemporary UFOlogy will be able to guess who they are by the report's description. They should also be familiar with the scenarios described by them, although the report does raise something called "Project Kona Blue" that I have not heard of before. The bulk of the document summarizes the history of US government UFO research which began officially in 1945 (Other nations, such as Britain and Italy, began much earlier). It repeats the conclusions of Project Blue Book, that UFO's were not a threat to national security and there was no evidence they are products of a non-human intelligence. It was this fob off that radicalized J Allen Hynek. In more recent years the inquiry was reopened under AAWSAP/AATIP, an organization that the government denied even existed; even when asked directly via a petition in 2011. Also NASA has joined in with its "independent group". There is a section on other countries and their own research; namely the UK, Canada and France. Despite the opinions of the Canadian Wilbert B Smith, one of the few people the document identified by name, the official line from Canada and the other two nations is the same as the American one. A lot of UFO lore apparently comes from a misidentification of more mundane classified military operations such as Project Mogul, specifically for the Roswell incident; and Project Aquatone, the race to develop a high altitude long range reconnaissance aircraft during the 1950's. Admittedly, the Canadians built an aircraft called the "Avrocar" that looked just like a flying saucer, but its test flights were very unsuccessful and so it cannot possiblly explain genuine flying saucer sightings. Just before its very verbose citations index, the report concludes: "To date, AARO has not discovered any empirical evidence that any sighting of a UAP represented off-world technology or the existence a classified program that had not been properly reported to Congress." Source: https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Volume_1_2024.pdf. This is pretty much what I expected. This document may be far longer than previous AARO reports, but it somehow says even less. It certainly contains almost no original information at all. I know the UFO skeptics and backslappers are going to accuse me of sour grapes just because the investigation I wanted to happen did not give me the answer I want to hear, but that is unfair. I have described many times in detail the reasons why I think this conclusion is incorrect and probably deceptive. There are many other occasions that the government has issued fake "nothing to see here" stories. They even lied about the very existence of some of the organizations listed in the report. They didn't just decline to answer, they outright lied! Why should we believe them now? I wonder what volume two will have in store for us... Well, actually I don't really.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.