NASA wants to remove the stigma around reporting and researching UFOs. On Wednesday, a 16-member team of independent experts said it had been harassed for helping NASA create a strategy to better categorize and evaluate unidentified flying objects.
During a public meeting on Wednesday, NASA said its 16-member team of independent experts had been harassed for helping create a strategy to better categorize and evaluate unidentified flying objects — now called UAPs, for unidentified anomalous phenomena.
The independent study team was tapped last year and plans to release a report by the end of July. Its focus is on the sky, where most of the sightings have been reported, though the National Defense Authorization Act recently changed the acronym from unidentified aerial phenomena to unidentified anomalous phenomena. This expands the scope to undersea and in space.release of a series of U.S.
Most UAPs have explainable sources, such as commercial aircraft, military equipment, drones, weather balloons, SpaceX Starlink satellites or ionospheric phenomena including auroras. Kirkpatrick said the new DOD office is analyzing which current sensors, such as those on satellites or used by the Federal Aviation Administration to monitor air traffic, could help observe UAPs. His organization is also deploying surveillance systems built to specifically look for and track these phenomena. These systems would operate over long periods of time to help researchers understand what’s normal and what’s not.
from different angles, then researchers could infer the location and velocity to determine if the object was a plane or balloon or something else.
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