Update for 4:30 PM EDT on May 31: The first public meeting of NASA’s independent study group UAP has ended. Read our wrap story here or watch the replay below.
NASA is holding a historic public meeting on UFOs today (May 31), and you can watch it all live online in a free webcast.
The agency will hold a June 2022 meeting of the “independent study group” it founded nearly a year ago to study data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a new term that describes objects or events in the sky. , under water or in the air. in space that cannot be immediately identified. The meeting will be the group’s first time to publicly discuss the results of its UAP study. The four-hour meeting can be viewed online via a free live stream at NASA TV starts at 10:30am ET (1430 GMT).
After the event, NASA will host an audio stream of a post-meeting media conference call that will include Dan Evans of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, David Spergel, president, chair of NASA’s independent UAP study team, and other members of the agency’s UAP group. . .
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NASA created the group to investigate any available data that could shed light on the UAP conundrum and how it could help “advance the scientific understanding of UAPs,” according to a 2022 study. rack of the agency.
The 16-member study group includes former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, alongside a wide variety of experts from academia, the aerospace industry and even a science journalist. The team only studies unclassified data, according to a list of frequently asked questions the agency released.
Thomas Zurbuchen, the former associate administrator for science at NASA headquarters in Washington, said shortly after the group was announced that it was created in part to “turn a field that is relatively data-poor into one that is much more data-rich.” and therefore worthy of scientific investigation and analysis.”
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NASA’s study group is just one of several US government-funded groups created to study UAP. In 2022, the US Department of Defense created an office to study unidentified objects in space, air and water, or even objects that appear to travel between them.
Despite studying hundreds of reported incidents involving UAP, the group’s director told the Senate Armed Forces Committee in April that the group has so far found “no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity, out-of-world technology, or objects associated with the known defy the laws of physics. “
