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So it looks like Area 51 is not what popular culture thinks.

tl;dr sorry, no aliens

Read the Pentagon UFO report newly released by the Department of Defense

“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” the report said.

The report also addresses claims that government and private companies are “reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology” and hiding it, noting that there is “no empirical evidence for claims” and that “claims involving specific people, known locations technological tests, and documents allegedly involved in or related to the reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial technology, are inaccurate.”

I guess this means social media isn’t an alien plot to get us to destroy ourselves? (At least, that’s what they want us to think;)

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NASA just released a report on the current status of research on unidentified anomalous phenomena, more commonly referred to by Area 51 enthusiasts as UFOs.

Here’s the full report:

UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA: Independent Study Team Report

Don’t have time for the full document? Here’s a summary article:

NASA UFO report finds no evidence of ‘extraterrestrial origin’ for UAP sightings | Space

NASA’s UFO study team released its long-awaited first report today, and while its experts found no signs of extraterrestrial origins for reported sightings, the space agency is appointing a new chief to study the phenomenon.

The takeaway? Sorry, folks, it’s not aliens.

But.

When it comes to mysteries like these, we still have a lot more to learn. 

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