DOD's Alien technology scam

 Blaze:

The Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office was established in 2022 for the purpose of investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena, better known as unidentified flying objects.

In the wake of high-profile allegations by former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch and other Pentagon officials suggesting the U.S. government secretly obtained and reverse-engineered alien technology, the AARO reviewed — as required by the National Defense Authorization Act — all official government investigations into UAP conducted since 1945, researching both classified and unclassified archives and conducting numerous interviews.

The AARO claimed in a report last year that it "found no evidence that any [U.S. government] investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology."

The report noted further that the AARO found no evidence for claims that the government and private companies have been reverse-engineering alien technology.
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It turns out that in a handful of cases dating all the way back to the 1950s, the Pentagon apparently created and/or nurtured false narratives concerning alien technology in order to protect man-made secret weapons projects, to put America's adversaries off the trail of potential national security vulnerabilities, and, in some cases, just to mess with newly assigned officers.
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The scam was to hide US technology by pretending that it was from aliens.  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ended the scam.