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I’ve pointed out before that the US government’s habit of creating UFO task forces, learning nothing from them, dissolving them, then forming new ones is just like the old saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
No aliens? Must be the task force’s fault. Let’s form a new one.
The current iteration is the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which released its latest report last week (read the PDF here), and you probably didn’t know it because Israel is at war with Hamas, Russia is at war with Ukraine, and the House of Representatives is chasing its tail unable to select a Speaker.
It’s a short read, 15 pages, and will be deeply disappointing to those who cling to a belief that the government is in the process of revealing a deep knowledge of alien civilizations, a fantasy process known to UFOlogists as “Disclosure”. The reason is that it appears the AARO is beginning to do its job properly, to listen to outside sources (such as Mick West’s Metabunk team of amateur experts who solve most of these cases very quickly), and to tune out the noise from the community of alien visitation advocates who have been controlling the narrative up until now: Lue Elizondo, Leslie Kean, George Knapp, and their large circle of associates well funded by Chris Mellon and Robert Bigelow.
The findings are best summarized from this one line:
The majority of unidentified objects reported to AARO demonstrate ordinary characteristics of readily explainable sources, while a large number of cases in AARO’s holdings remain technically unresolved because of a lack of data.
Translation:
There was nothing interesting or unusual in the majority of reports, and the rest didn’t have enough information.
Is it time for the government to take UFOs more seriously? No. It’s time to stop wasting time and money on them — instead, train the pilots better by showing them how some of these cases were solved.
There is unchallenged reason to believe aliens have never visited the Earth and never will. (Source)
Nobody has ever been hurt or injured by a UFO, and none has represented a threat to air traffic. (Source)
Foreign threats do not intersect the UFO phenomenon. (Source)
No solved UFO case has ever turned out to be anything unusual. (Source)
STOP WITH THE UFOs ALREADY.
The very fact that there is so much effort to rebrand UFOs as UAPs, for no other reason than to escape stigma, suggests that stigma may be justified and well earned.