An interesting read............sorry, no UFOs involved
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/worl...1&cvid=13001f9f51314d5081b00c1304a64130&ei=29
News first broke just over a week ago that a former career American intelligence officer is alleging the U.S. government is concealing a decades-long top-secret 'crash retrieval' program that has overseen the recovery of otherworldly flying machines and their pilots. There remains no hard evidence available to the public to substantiate these claims. Yet the U.S. military and intelligence community's shadowy crash retrieval programs are a very real thing, although the ones we know about are focused on foreign, not alien technology.
These secretive endeavors are part of a larger ecosystem focused on gathering intelligence — through examining, reverse engineering, and testing — non-U.S. weapon systems and other equipment through so-called Foreign Materiel Exploitation, or FME. This extensive espionage ecosystem, honed over nearly a century of operations, lives in the shadows, but remains an indispensable discipline that has paid off massively time and time again.
Crash retrievals become a hot topic
David Grusch's assertions about what have historically been referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFO) and are now generally described as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) first emerged publicly in a June 5 piece published by The Debrief. Grusch is a retired U.S. Air Force officer career intelligence official who has worked for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the now-defunct UAP Task Force (UAPTF). In 2021, the Department of Defense replaced the UAPTF with an organization that has now evolved into the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
Grusch has filed a formal whistleblower complaint alleging that information about the recovery of objects of "non-human" origin, including UAPs and their pilots, has been improperly withheld from Congress. He has said some of these items were first retrieved as far back as the 1930s, but says he has not personally seen any of them firsthand. He also says he has been retaliated against by elements of the U.S. government over his push for greater Congressional oversight of these matters, but has not publicly accused those entities by name, citing ongoing investigations of his claims.
Official U.S. government interest in UAPs has surged in recent years, spurred in part by the public disclosure of a number of sightings by U.S. military personnel in the past two decades or so. The War Zone has explored in detail how many of these incidents likely reflect very real Earthly national security threats, such as the now-exposed Chinese government high-altitude balloon surveillance program and drone swarms around U.S. Navy warships.
"To date, AARO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently," Sue Gough, a Department of Defense spokesperson, told The War Zone last week when asked about Grusch's complaint. "AARO is committed to following the data and its investigation wherever it leads."
The official logo of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). DOD
"AARO, working with the Office of the General Counsel and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, has established a safe and secure process for individuals to come forward with information to aid AARO in its congressionally-mandated historical review," she added.
The White House, NASA, and members of Congress involved in intelligence oversight have also since issued similar statements.
What Is Foreign Materiel Exploitation?
While David Grusch's crash retrieval program claims remain up for debate, the U.S. Intelligence Community, including elements of the U.S. military like NRO and NGA, is very much engaged in FME efforts that include the retrieval of flying objects, or parts thereof, from crash sites and other sources for further analysis and evaluation.
For instance, having actual examples of foreign aircraft, or even just certain components, offers unique opportunities to analyze their capabilities and weaknesses, and then to help in the development of new capabilities, countermeasures, and tactics, techniques, and procedures that can be used against them. Other intelligence can be gleaned from specialized testing of real-world components. This includes gaining insight into the doctrine and standard operating procedures of foreign military forces and the industrial capabilities, including material sciences, and other capacities of those countries.
In addition, if the aircraft are flyable, then they can be pitted against friendly designs, as well as other systems, including air defense assets, adding a level of realism to test and evaluation activities and training exercises that cannot necessarily be achieved through simulated means. Even by themselves, certain working subcomponents, such as electronic warfare suites and radars, can be evaluated in similar ways.
more at link with lots of pictures
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/worl...1&cvid=13001f9f51314d5081b00c1304a64130&ei=29
News first broke just over a week ago that a former career American intelligence officer is alleging the U.S. government is concealing a decades-long top-secret 'crash retrieval' program that has overseen the recovery of otherworldly flying machines and their pilots. There remains no hard evidence available to the public to substantiate these claims. Yet the U.S. military and intelligence community's shadowy crash retrieval programs are a very real thing, although the ones we know about are focused on foreign, not alien technology.
These secretive endeavors are part of a larger ecosystem focused on gathering intelligence — through examining, reverse engineering, and testing — non-U.S. weapon systems and other equipment through so-called Foreign Materiel Exploitation, or FME. This extensive espionage ecosystem, honed over nearly a century of operations, lives in the shadows, but remains an indispensable discipline that has paid off massively time and time again.
Crash retrievals become a hot topic
David Grusch's assertions about what have historically been referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFO) and are now generally described as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) first emerged publicly in a June 5 piece published by The Debrief. Grusch is a retired U.S. Air Force officer career intelligence official who has worked for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the now-defunct UAP Task Force (UAPTF). In 2021, the Department of Defense replaced the UAPTF with an organization that has now evolved into the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
Grusch has filed a formal whistleblower complaint alleging that information about the recovery of objects of "non-human" origin, including UAPs and their pilots, has been improperly withheld from Congress. He has said some of these items were first retrieved as far back as the 1930s, but says he has not personally seen any of them firsthand. He also says he has been retaliated against by elements of the U.S. government over his push for greater Congressional oversight of these matters, but has not publicly accused those entities by name, citing ongoing investigations of his claims.
Official U.S. government interest in UAPs has surged in recent years, spurred in part by the public disclosure of a number of sightings by U.S. military personnel in the past two decades or so. The War Zone has explored in detail how many of these incidents likely reflect very real Earthly national security threats, such as the now-exposed Chinese government high-altitude balloon surveillance program and drone swarms around U.S. Navy warships.
"To date, AARO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently," Sue Gough, a Department of Defense spokesperson, told The War Zone last week when asked about Grusch's complaint. "AARO is committed to following the data and its investigation wherever it leads."
The official logo of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). DOD
"AARO, working with the Office of the General Counsel and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, has established a safe and secure process for individuals to come forward with information to aid AARO in its congressionally-mandated historical review," she added.
The White House, NASA, and members of Congress involved in intelligence oversight have also since issued similar statements.
What Is Foreign Materiel Exploitation?
While David Grusch's crash retrieval program claims remain up for debate, the U.S. Intelligence Community, including elements of the U.S. military like NRO and NGA, is very much engaged in FME efforts that include the retrieval of flying objects, or parts thereof, from crash sites and other sources for further analysis and evaluation.
For instance, having actual examples of foreign aircraft, or even just certain components, offers unique opportunities to analyze their capabilities and weaknesses, and then to help in the development of new capabilities, countermeasures, and tactics, techniques, and procedures that can be used against them. Other intelligence can be gleaned from specialized testing of real-world components. This includes gaining insight into the doctrine and standard operating procedures of foreign military forces and the industrial capabilities, including material sciences, and other capacities of those countries.
In addition, if the aircraft are flyable, then they can be pitted against friendly designs, as well as other systems, including air defense assets, adding a level of realism to test and evaluation activities and training exercises that cannot necessarily be achieved through simulated means. Even by themselves, certain working subcomponents, such as electronic warfare suites and radars, can be evaluated in similar ways.
more at link with lots of pictures
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