Well, THOSE eagerly anticipated revelations certainly crashed and burned.
You may recall last summer a former intelligence officer told Congress that Uncle Sam maintains a covert stockpile of downed alien spacecraft and corpses. (“Doesn’t he look unnatural?”)
But now a wide-ranging report by the Defense Department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) declares there is zero reasonable evidence of a secret program to recover dead extraterrestrials and reverse-engineer their technology.
(Pay no attention to that low-level mechanic showing off a set of fifth-dimensional fuzzy dice. Or the decoded message “Tell my wives I’ll miss them. Those &%$# flying reindeer came out of nowhere…”)
Depending on your existing prejudices, you may greet these conclusions with relief, vindication, disappointment or a skeptical outburst of “If they can’t keep up with the defense secretary’s hospital stays, what makes you think they’d know an alien........