While UAPs are often linked in the public’s mind with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, members of the panel stressed that they are not making any assumptions about the origins of sightings that don’t yet have explanation. The federal agency wants to remove the stigma around the reporting of unidentified flying object sightings so that it can better investigate them. Politics Spot a UFO? The Pentagon wants to know The outstanding cases tend to be those with too little reliable information to support any conclusion, he said. Only about 2% to 5% of those sightings remain unexplained after investigation, Kirkpatrick said. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Defense Department branch tasked with identifying anomalous phenomena, has investigated about 800 reports of UAPs made since 1996, director Sean Kirkpatrick told the panel. Its goal, former associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen explained last year, is to “take a field that is relatively data-poor and make it into a field that is much more data-rich, and therefore worthy of scientific investigation and analysis.”Īt Wednesday’s meeting, which took place at NASA’s Washington headquarters and was streamed live on the agency’s website, the study team confirmed that there is still a considerable deficit of quality data on the subject of UAPs.
It is scheduled to release its final report in late July. NASA is embarking on a new study on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs - the term scientists use instead of UFOs.Ĭonsisting of experts in astrophysics, space exploration and aviation, the panel aims to guide NASA on which unclassified data to use when investigating UAPs.
Science & Medicine Is it a bird? A plane? NASA will study mysterious objects in the sky
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