Open Veils · Answer
Do we know if we have had alien encounter?
The bureaucratic 'no evidence' verdict is itself the anomaly requiring explanation. Sworn congressional testimony from David Grusch in 2023 alleged the U.S. government operates a multi-decade, compartmentalized non-human intelligence retrieval program — a claim no AARO report has actually investigated with full access. The official record is not a clean negative; it is a heavily redacted partial audit.
Evidence
- Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon's AATIP program, has stated publicly that the program documented encounters exhibiting flight characteristics — instantaneous acceleration, transmedium travel, lack of visible propulsion — that no known human aerospace platform replicates.
- Ross Coulthart, the Australian investigative journalist behind 'In Plain Sight,' reported in 2022-2023 that multiple senior intelligence community sources confirmed legacy crash retrieval programs exist and that official denials are deliberate legal constructions, not factual ones.
- His account is corroborated independently by Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, who confirmed AATIP's findings and the deliberate bureaucratic suppression of its conclusions.
- The gap between 'AARO found nothing' and 'nothing exists' is, by the testimony record, enormous.