(NewsNation) — Some employees within the U.S. Department of Defense believe claims of an alleged program where the government reverse engineered alien technology from a recovered UFO, NewsNation special correspondent Ross Coulthart reports.
Declassified documents released by the Pentagon office charged with investigating UAPs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena, reveal the existence of a program to reverse engineer alien technology. But it never got off the ground because there was no such technology to be found.
Kona Blue was a plan for the government to reverse engineer alien technology from a recovered UFO. It was a special access, or top secret, program created with the goal of acquiring, identifying and reverse engineering what it calls AAVs, or advanced aerospace vehicles.
“I can tell you that there are people inside the Defense Department, former and serving, who do believe that the claims made in the Kona Blue documents were authentic,” Coulthart said.
The documents laid out a budget between $12 and $15 million for the first year, $25 million for the second year and eventually an operating expense of more than $50 million. The purpose was national security, with a goal of “(accessing) recovered advanced technology and (determining) its threat capability.”
The program also had goals of determining if our adversaries, namely China and Russia, could have access to recovered advanced aerospace vehicles (AAVs) as well.
Coulthart said there is a potential rift between U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense.
“I’m told there is a split between the intelligence community and the Defense Department,” said Coulthart. “The Pentagon has decided to bluff it out and go it alone. There are people who are passionately of the view that there is authentic recovered nonhuman technology in the possession of the United States, and they are determined to get access to it so that its utility can be exploited.”
Kona Blue had been the subject of rumors for years, but the Defense Department only acknowledged it just this past month.
NewsNation’s Steph Whiteside contributed to this report.