5 min readHere’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:The U.S. government perpetuated myths about UFOs at Area 51, according to an exposé from The Wall Street Journal.Former officials may have unknowingly advanced similar myths about aliens and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) in Congressional hearings. These stories may have spread because we assume the government knows more than we do, an expert explains.The U.S. government allegedly recovered crashed UFOs with “non-human biologics” on board, suggesting aliens, according to Dave Grusch, a former member of the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. Grusch was one of several whistleblowers who testified at a congressional hearing regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) two summers ago. While explosive, his claims have never been authenticated, and Grusch himself has admitted that he’s never seen crashed UAPs with his own eyes.And that July 2022 congressional hearing wasn’t the first time whistleblowers sounded the UAP alarm. In 2022, officials created a new department called the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to address concerns related to all things extraterrestrial. When the office was founded, the task force had two main jobs. The first was to collect data on UAP sightings, most of which they chalked up to balloons, satellites, and birds. The second was to investigate claims that the Pentagon operated a secret division to harvest alien technology; shockingly, the team found the Pentagon was doing quite the opposite. AARO discovered that Washington was behind at least one myth about extraterrestrial spacecrafts, according to a bombshell Wall Street Journal report published earlier this month. Some of the fabrications uncovered by Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of AARO, seem unthinkable. Others align suspiciously well with the alleged experiences of recent whistleblowers—who may have unknowingly perpetuated UFO myths, themselves. One of the schemes started back i