NASA allocates a committee to understand "unidentified anomalous phenomena"
Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida (NASA)
Its formation is linked to the large number of UFO sightings
A special kind of race is being undertaken by the US Space Agency as an attempt to understand “unidentified anomalous phenomena” or events taking place in the sky that cannot be identified as balloons, airplanes, or known natural phenomena from a scientific perspective.
The American space move came in response to the recommendation of an independent NASA team , before the unveiling of the first report on UAP research related to anomalous cosmic phenomena.
The space research team undertook the task of submitting reports to NASA and evaluating space events and phenomena by returning to the events, observations, and testimonies given by many people around the world about their sightings of strange flying objects in the sky .
The group, which was formed after many sightings of UFOs, aims to examine data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a new term that includes objects or incidents in the sky, underwater or in space that cannot be immediately identified.
The group includes people with extensive knowledge in the fields related to the topic, including astronauts, astronomers, and others. As for the director of the “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” follow-up committee, he served as NASA’s liaison to the Ministry of Defense, and covered the agency’s limited UAP activities.
It will benefit from NASA's expertise in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and space observation tools to support and enhance the broader government initiative in this regard. Since 1996, he has held various positions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Assistant Deputy Administrator for Research in NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Daniel Evans, noted that public interest in UAP, or anomalous phenomena, appears to be at an all-time high at this point and it is NASA's responsibility to give the topic the "rigorous scientific scrutiny" it deserves. .
Evans pointed out that the study is concerned, first and foremost, with gaining a greater understanding of what is in the air and making the sky safer, and it is the duty of this nation to determine whether these phenomena pose any potential dangers to the safety of the airspace.
As for the Pentagon, the director of its All-Area Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Sean Kirkpatrick, announced that “most of the UAP reports reviewed by the office can be easily interpreted, but some of them remain unresolved, mainly due to a lack of data.” associated with these cases.
Witness reports
During the press conference held by NASA to announce the launch of the new committee and the reasons for its formation, it was revealed that recently many reliable witnesses, most of whom were military pilots, reported seeing “things” that they did not know what they were above American airspace.
The report added that most of these events have been explained, but a small handful of them cannot be identified until today, and these collective observations are referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, and NASA acknowledges that during the study of such phenomena there is an overall challenge related to the necessary data. To explain these anomalies includes interesting and compelling eyewitness reports.
The report, available to everyone on NASA's website, stated that UAP was defined as "unidentified atmospheric phenomena" by Congress before the study began, but after it began, it was modified to become "unidentified anomalous phenomena."
The general recommendation of NASA's independent study team indicated that the agency would allow the use of its open resources, extensive technological expertise, data analysis techniques, federal and commercial partnerships, and Earth observation assets, to curate a better and robust data set to understand the future UAP.
NASA will work to take into account all the reports, observations, and information provided by citizens and pilots of all kinds to build a broader and more reliable data set, and the new team has been allowed to use non-confidential data from civilian government entities and commercial data.
The UAP's independent study team consists of 16 specialists in various fields and in matters related to the study of "unidentified anomalous phenomena" from a scientific perspective. The team will create a roadmap for how scientific data and tools can be used to advance our understanding of these phenomena.
The team is led by astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the Simmons Foundation in New York City and formerly head of the astrophysics department at Princeton University in New Jersey.
?Why is NASA involved
Visitors to NASA's website asked many questions about the new committee, specifically the secret of its involvement in studying strange phenomena. According to the agency’s response, “Exploring the unknown in space and the atmosphere is the core of our identity. The nature of science is to better understand the unknown, but the language of scientists is data.”
She continued, "The limited number of high-quality observations of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, currently makes it impossible to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of such events. NASA will assign the independent study team to examine UAP from a scientific perspective, with a focus on how the agency uses the data." "And scientific tools to advance our understanding."
Regarding another question asked by visitors to the “NASA” website, which is, “What can the public expect after the report is issued?”, the agency answered, “A full report will be issued to the public in keeping with NASA’s principles of openness, transparency, and scientific integrity, and we expect to find that the interpretations will apply.” "We will not underestimate the importance of what the natural world contains, and we believe there is a lot to learn."
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