

That said, there remain events that we do not understand.” “We saw more of this today and many of these events are commercial aircraft, civilian and military drones, weather and research balloons, military equipment, weather phenomena and ionospheric phenomena. “We’ve gone through a data collection stage, which is continued with the hearing today, and I think what we’ve seen is that many events have conventional explanations,” Spergel said.
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Instead, the team’s approach has been outlining how to evaluate and study unidentified anomalous phenomena using data and technology. The purpose of the group is not to determine the true nature of the UAPs, which have been seen moving through restricted military airspace over the past several decades. Studying unidentified anomalous phenomena The team is led by astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation in New York City.ĭuring the hearing, Kelly reflected on his spaceflight and atmospheric flight experiences, and said both are “very, very conducive to optical illusions.” The agency’s independent study team includes 16 scientists and experts across various fields - astrobiology, data science, oceanography, genetics, policy and planetary science - as well as retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, a former fighter pilot, test pilot and retired US Navy captain. The nine-month study began on October 24, 2022, and the team - having held final deliberations Wednesday - will publish a report by the end of July. “The report will inform NASA on what possible data could be collected in the future to shed light on the nature and origin of UAP,” according to the agency. The space agency has already noted that the limited number of observations of UAPs has made it difficult to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of such events. Mysterious rumblings were recorded in Earth’s stratosphere Guide Star Engineering LLC/Sandia National Laboratories The photo was taken at a height of about 13 miles. The change occurred in recognition of the fact that the search for UAP should include near space and undersea phenomena as well, he said.Ī view of the earth from one of Sandia National Laboratories' solar-powered hot air balloons. The term UAP, originally meaning unidentified aerial phenomena, was changed by the National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law in December, Evans said. Unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, “are events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena from a scientific perspective,” according to NASA. The comments came during a Wednesday news conference after NASA held an hours-long public meeting led by its independent study team that is categorizing and evaluating data of unidentified anomalous phenomena. And that’s all part of NASA’s commitment to exploring the unknown, and doing so with the openness, transparency and candor that we’re well accustomed to providing the public.” “NASA believes that the tools of science apply to the study (of) UAP because they allow us to separate fact from fiction. “We’re trying to assess whether those phenomena pose any risks to safety and we’re doing it using science,” Evans added. “We’ve tasked (the team) with helping NASA produce a roadmap, a roadmap that doesn’t necessarily look back at previous grainy footage, sort of acknowledges that many UAPs historically we’ll never be able to get to the bottom because the data are of such poor quality,” Evans said on Wednesday. “Unidentified anomalous phenomena has truly captured the attention of the public, of the scientific community and nowadays, the US government as well, and we at NASA strongly believe that it’s our responsibility all working together to investigate these with the scientific scrutiny that NASA is well known for,” said Dan Evans, assistant deputy associate administrator for research, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. A team of 16 experts and scientists assembled by NASA aims to publish its first report on unidentified anomalous phenomena, also known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOS, by midsummer.
