NASA on Wednesday held its first public meeting on UFOs a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings and insisted it’s not hiding anything. The space agency televised the four-hour hearing featuring an independent panel of experts who vowed to be transparent. The team includes 16 scientists and other experts selected by NASA including retired astronaut Scott Kelly, the first American to spend nearly a year in space. “I want to emphasize this loud and proud: There is absolutely no convincing evidence for extraterrestrial life associated with” unidentified objects, NASA’s Dan Evans said after the meeting.
A group of experts studying UFOs presented of their findings. The ‘independent study group,’ convened by the American space agency last June, consists of representatives from the Pentagon, civilian government agencies, and industry leaders.
NASA releases footage of unidentifiable spherical orb ‘that may never be explained’
Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), gave one of the most fascinating presentations. One video appears to show a metallic, spherical orb flying over a desert in the Middle East, sometime in 2022.
According to the team, there are around 50 to 100 sightings made each month, but that just two to three percent are ‘possibly anomalous’.
While addressing a press conference, NASA team’s chair David Spergel said ‘many of these events are commercial aircraft, civilian and military drones, weather and research balloons, (or) ionospheric phenomenon’ but went on to say that current data was ‘insufficient to provide conclusive evidence about the nature and origin’ to all UAPs.
NASA Talks UFOs With Public Ahead of Final Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs on Wednesday a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings and insisted it’s not hiding anything.
The space agency televised the four-hour hearing featuring an independent panel of experts who vowed to be transparent. The team includes 16 scientists and other experts selected by NASA including retired astronaut Scott Kelly, the first American to spend nearly a year in space.
“I want to emphasize this loud and proud: There is absolutely no convincing evidence for extraterrestrial life associated with” unidentified objects, NASA’s Dan Evans said after the meeting.
Still, hundreds of questions from the public that poured in ahead of time were skeptical and veered into conspiracy theories.
NASA launched the study to probe what it calls UAPs — short for unexplained anomalous phenomena — in the sky, in space or under the sea.
Optical illusions can explain some of this, said Kelly, a former Navy fighter pilot. He recalled a Tomcat flight off Virginia Beach years ago during which his radar intercept officer in the back seat was convinced they’d flown past a UFO.
“It turns out it was Bart Simpson, a balloon,” Kelly said. “And in my experience, the sensors kind of have the same issues as the people’s eyeballs.”
Evans pointed out that the livestream of the meeting led to considerable trolling. That comes on top of “online abuse” directed toward several committee members.
Harassment detracts from the scientific process and reinforces the stigma surrounding the topic, said Evans, adding that NASA security is dealing with it.
(With AP Inputs)
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