“At this time, there is no reason to conclude that the reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena have an extraterrestrial origin,” concluded the independent group of experts that has studied UAPs for nine months on behalf of NASA. The report, the result of a year of work and which has just been presented in Washington, is disappointing. It is not a review of recorded incidents. The space agency is going to create a department to study UFOs and is offering the United States Government to contribute to its research, presumably in exchange for the relevant federal funds.
“While the AARO (All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office) is leading the government’s response to UAPs, the group recommends that NASA play an essential role within that framework” given its experience and resources, the report’s authors state. , a committee of sixteen experts led by astrophysicist David Spergel. When NASA announced the creation of this group of experts in June of last year, it justified it by saying that “unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest to both national security and air safety. Establishing which events are natural provides a key first step in identifying or mitigating such phenomena, which aligns with one of NASA’s goals to ensure aircraft safety.”
NASA is understandably concerned that there are atmospheric phenomena that are unknown or poorly understood by its scientists. Not in vain, it launches objects that pass through atmospheres when they leave Earth and land on other worlds. The report made public today is peppered with unfounded claims such as that “UAPs are one of the greatest mysteries on our planet. “Objects in our skies that cannot be identified as balloons, airplanes, or known natural phenomena have been observed around the world, but high-quality observations are limited.”
“Where is the evidence to support that claim?” a veteran and respected ufologist told this newspaper. Human beings have been seeing strange things in the skies for nearly 150 years. All military and civil research projects have agreed since 1947 that the majority of UFO sightings correspond to mundane objects and phenomena, but they also admit that there are between 2% and 5% of unexplained cases. As in the case of unsolved crimes, this residue is attributed to lack of data – today’s report recognizes this point – witnesses who lie or are confused and other reasons, including the cover-up of secret military programs.
According to Bill Nelson, NASA administrator, this residue of unexplained events deserves the creation of a team at the agency dedicated to the study of UFOs despite the fact that the group of experts “has not found any evidence that UAPs have an origin alien”.
According to Bill Nelson, NASA administrator, this residue of unexplained events deserves the creation of a team at the agency dedicated to the study of UFOs despite the fact that the group of experts “has not found any evidence that UAPs have an origin alien”.
UAP is what the Pentagon has been calling for a few years now what it previously called UFOs, to disassociate the new casuistry from the myth of extraterrestrial visits. After detecting an increase in UAP enlistments by Navy pilots near military installations and during maneuvers starting in 2004, the Department of Defense launched a first team of investigators in August 2020 to clarify these types of events. In Washington, there is the same concern as in the middle of the last century, that the devices of enemy powers are hidden behind unidentified flying objects.
The so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) obtained rather poor results: it was unable to find an explanation for 93.7% of the incidents reported between November 2004 and March 2021. In July of last year, it was replaced in that work by the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Led by physicist Sean Kirkpatrick, the AARO reported last May that it can explain 95% of the 800 sightings studied – most correspond to balloons – and that among the rest there is nothing that points to extraterrestrials.