Aliens are a common topic among Americans. The “little green men” are seen throughout movies, books, television, etc. With aliens, there are always the questions like, “Are they real? Do they really come to earth in their spaceships and probe people?” The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is attempting to handle that question as they investigate the extraterrestrial. Keep reading to learn more about their mission and findings. See more:Pop Punk Icon Tom DeLonge Helps the Military Find Aliens

A Brief Overview of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

Yes, there is an actual office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense that investigates aliens. This office, abbreviated as the AARO, is tasked with investigating UAPs. What is a UAP? “UAP” stands for unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). UAP is the official U.S. military “UFO” term, but they’re often used interchangeably among non-government folks.

The History of the AARO

The history of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is somewhat long and complicated, as is the history of UFO sightings. The first modern UFO sighting was in 1947 by pilot Kenneth Arnold. Since then, military UFO investigation has been a thing in official capacities throughout government organizations. But this first sighting made it clear that someone needed to probe into the issue. (Warning: lots of acronyms ahead.) The AARO has its origins in the Advanced Aerospace Thread Identification Program (AATIP). The AATIP was organized in 2007 and dissolved in 2012. However, despite being active for these years, knowledge about the AATIP was only made public in 2017. It was funded by the U.S. Government with a budget of $22 million. The Advanced Aerospace Thread Identification Program’s purpose was to study UFO and UAP incidents. After the AATIP came the UAP Task Force (UAPTF). The UAPTF was managed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence as well as the Office of Naval Intelligence. In 2020, the Senate requested the unidentified aerial phenomena videos collected by the Navy, as well as Pentagon UFO videos. In that same year, the Intelligence Committee also voted to publicize all tracking and data analysis on any unidentified aerial phenomena. After this publicization, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office was born in summer 2022.

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Mission

The AARO has a very specific purpose. The organization focuses on:

• Surveillance, Collection, and Recording.
• System Capabilities and Design.
• Intelligence Operations and Analysis.
• Mitigation and Defeat.
• Governance.
• Science and Technology.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is different from the rest of the “alien offices” because they investigate all UAP reports, not just aerial ones.

Recent Alien Findings

The AARO has investigated UFOs reported by the military. UFOs don’t just create crop circles; they also like to check out Navy ships, apparently! In 2021, a Pentagon UAP report confirmed pictures and videos of pyramid-shaped objects hovering over the USS Russell to be authentic. Another video of a spherical object flying over the USS Omaha is still being authenticated. In 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released another Pentagon UAP report. Commonly known as the Pentagon UFO Report, this report stated that the UAPTF was not able to identify 143 of the 144 objects that were spotted between 2002 and 2021. According to the report, 18 of those objects displayed unusual flight movement patterns and characteristics, and the task force concluded that more analysis needs to be done to determine what these objects are.

Pentagon Involvement

Extraterrestrial life continues to be denied by the Pentagon. UAPs are being explained as weather events, military technology from foreign nations, or even American military technology. Just in December of 2022, Ronald Moultrie, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, stated, “I have not seen anything in those holdings to date that would suggest that there has been an alien visitation, an alien crash or anything like that.” Moultrie said that the Pentagon’s concerns lie in UAP sightings near American military installations, particularly ones that occur underwater. Despite what the Pentagon has to say about unidentified alien phenomena, NASA is on a different page. The Administrator of NASA, Bill Nelson, stated, “Who am I to say that planet Earth is the only location of a life form that is civilized and organized like ours?” If NASA, the space people of America, will neither confirm nor deny that aliens exist, well, you can make your own conclusions. Alien life has been a funny topic of discussion for many years, but with these recent reports from the Pentagon and the creation of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, it begs the question of if alien life is real. Though the Pentagon will adamantly deny alien life, NASA is not on board with those statements. The future for the AARO is exciting; will we discover alien life in the next few years? See more:What Scott Kelly & More Big Names in NASA UFO Study Hope To Find