Almost a year to the day since the UFO report was released, there’s more news about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). This time it has to do with NASA and their June 9 press release about how they’re forming an independent study team to examine UAPs from a scientific perspective.
The “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” report was put together by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in response to a provision in Senate Report 116-233 to assess UAP threats. NASA isn’t part of the Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force or its successor, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. Therefore, the NASA UAPs study team’s purpose will be a little bit different. It will focus on the data, including identifying it, how best to collect it in the future, and how NASA can use it to further scientific understanding of UAPs.
However, one of NASA’s goals is to ensure the safety of aircraft. The UFO report opened the door to justify a study team because UAPs “in the atmosphere are of interest for both national security and air safety.” Better understanding what UAPs are and what causes them are at the heart of the study team’s mission. Determining what events are natural as opposed to extraterrestrial (if applicable) is the first step in mitigating potentially hazardous phenomena.
“NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space – and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry. We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That’s the very definition of what science is. That’s what we do.”
NASA UAPs Study Team
Astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation in New York City, will lead the independent study team. He was also previously the chair of the astrophysics department at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, will serve as the NASA official responsible for orchestrating the study.
“Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can,” said Spergel. “We will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it.”
They’ll also consult experts in the scientific, aeronautics, and data analytics communities to focus on the best methods for collecting new data and improving observations of UAPs.
NAS UAPs Study Team Time Frame
They anticipate the study will take about nine months to complete.
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