NASA announced in June that it will open a scientific study on UFOs (short for “Unidentified Flying Objects”), or, as they were recently renamed, UAP (“Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”).
The main goals, NASA officials said at the time, will be to identify and characterize available UFO data, establish the best ways to collect observations in the future, and determine how the agency can use this data to advance our understanding of these intriguing visits.
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The study will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation in New York. Expected to cost no more than $100,000, start this fall and last for about nine months. And NASA is working hard to meet that schedule, officials said Wednesday (August 17) during a “town hall meeting” that discussed various projects from the agency’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD).
“We’re going full force” in preparations for the UAP study, Daniel Evans, deputy assistant deputy administrator for research at SMD, said during Wednesday’s town hall. “This is really important to us, and we are putting a high priority on that.”
The study panel will consist of 15 to 17 people, Evans added. These people will be “some of the world’s leading scientists, data professionals, artificial intelligence professionals, aerospace security experts, all with a specific charge, which is to tell us how to apply the full focus of science and data to UAP,” he said. he.
Evans and his team have identified their top candidates for the panel and plan to have them executed by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Wednesday after city hall. Since Nelson has given the thumbs up, the wheels have started to turn on the formal appointments of panelists.
“Hopefully we’ll do it by October,” Evans said of the nominations. “But I’m going to cross my fingers and say we can do it sooner than that.”
NASA’s upcoming investigation is highly anticipated and will undoubtedly be read avidly, and not just by die-hard believers in the UFO community. Indeed, agency officials said they hope the study will help bring UAP research into the rigorous and objective scientific mainstream.
“NASA is really uniquely positioned to address the UAP because we know how to use the tools of science and data to discern what might be happening in the skies,” Evans said. “And to be blunt, no other agency is as trusted by the public as we are.”
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