Have aliens ever set foot on our planet? If any organization knew the answer, it would be the Pentagon, and now the verdict has been delivered.
According to the US Department of Defense, no evidence has been found to indicate that aliens have ever visited Earth.
At a recent Pentagon news conference, Major General Pat Ryder was confronted with tough questions, including a cleverly crafted inquiry from Jeff Schogol, a journalist at the military news channel Task & Purpose.
Schogol took the opportunity to indirectly ask whether aliens had ever visited Earth, saying, “Given the news cycle, you could announce anything about aliens or extraterrestrial life, and no one would care.”
Ryder gave a nod to the epic science fiction series The X-Files with the tagline ‘the truth is out there’, which opens each episode, before Schogol is trained.
He said, “The truth is out there, Jeff, and the truth is that we have no evidence to suggest that alien life has visited the planet.”
Often linked to rumors of UFOs and the infamous Area 51, the US government has officially stated that it has never encountered extraterrestrial life on Earth.
In 2022, the Department of Defense established the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to investigate the possibility of alien visits.
After extensive research, the report concluded that no U.S. government investigation to date had revealed evidence of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP, also known as UFOs) linked to alien technology.
The report further clarified that certain top-secret national security programs were often misidentified as UFO-related. Furthermore, AARO found no supporting evidence for claims that the US government was engaged in reverse engineering alien technology, and most of interviewees’ claims were debunked.
“So here’s your answer: an unequivocal ‘no,’ at least for now,” the report concluded.
