The Pentagon's UFO Report Has a Surprise Twist: It Says There Have Never Been Any UFOs

A long time, a few released documents, a thousand promises of "transparency," and a million dashed hopes ago, I stopped anticipating "highly anticipated" government reports on UFOs. I've quit keeping track. So I didn't realize we were expecting this one. But I could've predicted these results:

Source - The Pentagon's embattled, but official UFO investigations office released its congressionally mandated report on 'historic' UFO cases dating back to 1945, Friday.

The report — which came in classified and unclassified formats, with the latter now available to the public online — claims that the office found 'no verifiable evidence that any UAP [i.e. UFO] sighting has represented extraterrestrial activity.'

But it did reveal at least one proposed top secret project, dubbed 'Kona Blue,' reviewed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the 2010s, and pitched as an effort to reverse-engineer hypothetically recovered extraterrestrial spacecraft. 

Tim Phillips, acting director of the Pentagon's UFO-hunting All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), told reporters that his office's new report casts doubt on the public testimony of UFO whistleblower and ex-US intel officer David Grusch. 

'AARO has found no verifiable evidence that the US government or private industry has ever had access to extraterrestrial technology,' Phillips told select reporters in a closed setting.

But in the past week, the exclusive, invite-only nature of the report's pre-release has been criticized by other journalists and UFO researchers for its lack of transparency.

'They've pledged openness and transparency to Congress on the subject of UAPs, but they're not following through on their actions,' said NewsNation correspondent Ross Coulthart, who secured the first televised interview with Grusch last summer. 

I feel you, NewsNation correspondent Ross Coulhart. I'm with you, other journalists and UFO researchers. But let's admit something to ourselves and the public.

We were duped. Played for suckers. Gullible to think that the AARO was ever going to produce results and share them with the world. 

Like somehow this time it would be different. After decades, coverups, denials, and ruining the reputations of people who have gone public with their experiences, we thought now they'd suddenly come clean? The DoD is the same government agency that insisted Area 51 doesn't exist, until they had no choice but to admit it did. So why would they be open and honest now? Because of public pressure? Because our elected representatives in Congress demanded it? Threatened to withhold funding? The Pentagon can't pass an audit. They don't even make an effort to. You can't pressure those who aren't beholden to you or anyone else. They'll operate as they see fit. Which is information is on a strict need-to-know basis and we don't need to know. 

So now the narrative they're pushing is that Grusch isn't telling the truth. People like Bob Lazar and Lt. Col. Phillip J. Corso who have spoken publicly about working personally on reverse-engineering these downed craft, and whose work has produced advanced technology like Element 115 (Lazar) and night vision (Corso) lied. Because the only such program we have is this "Kona Blue." And it's just hypothetical. A thought experiment. A thinktank where they sit around all day asking themselves, "What would you do if you had a flying saucer?" like it's a question from "Ask the Internet." And that somehow costs billions in taxpayer dollars. 

Fine. Keep playing the game. The rest of us will continue to stand with the likes of Grush, Lazar, Corso, and Lt. David Fravor who actually risked his life tracking the Tic Tac UFO with the most advanced equipment the world has ever known.

We'll just stop looking to the people in charge for answers. We won't get fooled again.