After a long investigation, a special agency of the US Department of Defense found no evidence of extraterrestrial visits to Earth. The researchers also found no evidence of attempts to keep information about this secret.

This is clear from anyone a report Which the Pentagon released today. The report specifically addresses US government investigations into sightings since 1945 and documents from secret government archives.

According to the new study, there is no evidence that the US military has withheld information about extraterrestrial life. Instead, the post-war focus was on “more important things”, such as exploring Soviet technologies.

In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a peak in the number of UFO sightings. According to the report, many of these observations can be explained by secret tests with spy planes and advanced space technology.

There are also many observations of “unidentified anomalous phenomena” for which there is no explanation yet, in most cases due to a lack of sufficient usable data, the researchers report.

The authors of the new report say they realize that people who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial visitors will not attach much importance to their findings. “Reports about unidentified aerial phenomena on television, on the Internet, and in social media have influenced the debate on this topic,” the researchers wrote. “They have strengthened faith in it among segments of the population.”

Stories about an alien spacecraft found and kept secret by the government are “particularly persistent,” researchers say, referring to conspiracy theories about the town of Roswell, where a flying saucer crashed in 1947, according to legend.

For the purposes of the study, staff interviewed NASA managers and held hearings in the US Congress. The authors say they conducted their research “with an open mind” but simply found no evidence of extraterrestrial visitors.

“All research efforts, at all levels, have led to the conclusion that most observations were common objects and phenomena, the result of misidentification,” one researcher said.