NASA selects 'full force' for probe into UFOs
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UAPs are observations of strange airborne objects and other things in the sky that cannot be immediately explained. Everyone's heard of the UFO; UAP is the [1]term government officials prefer.
Uncle Sam has helped launch a renewed interest in UAPs, admitting its g-men and g-women have amassed a collection of evidence of the phenomena the over the years. Some of the most [2]intriguing recordings include declassified footage released by the US Department of Defense of pilots reporting mysterious entities that appear to be flying at breakneck speeds, although these claims are hotly disputed.
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NASA [4]announced it was also going to conduct an independent study of its own, earlier this year. Now, Daniel Evans, assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD), said NASA is taking the project seriously. "We're going full force," he said in a town hall meeting this week, [5]reported by Space.com. "This is really important to us, and we're placing a high priority on it."
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NASA is now in the process of finalizing a panel of 15 to 17 experts to analyze and process evidence of UAPs; the information is expected to be released to the public after the nine-month-long study launches around October.
Panel members include "some of the world's leading scientists, data practitioners, artificial intelligence practitioners, aerospace safety experts, all with a specific charge, which is to tell us how to apply the full focus of science and data to UAP," Evans said. The project is expected to cost no more than $100,000.
[8]Pentagon opens up about its database of 400 smudges that may or may not be UFOs
[9]US Congress ponders setting up permanent UFO investigation office
[10]Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)
[11]Memo to scientists. Looking for intelligent life? Have you tried checking for worlds with a lot of industrial pollution?
Officials will try to identify which events are natural; it may be possible, for example, that some of these strange aircraft are simply top secret next-generation vehicles. There isn't much data to go on, NASA has previously [12]said there was no evidence that these UAPs are signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
A slide from the SMD's town hall presentation shows NASA will not just be trying to sort through existing data, but will also be thinking about how best to collect data on UAPs in the future.
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A NASA town hall meeting slide on UAPs ... Click to enlarge
The space agency will also be working with the Department of Defense and members of Congress. Identifying these UFOs is of great interest to NASA and the DoD for national security, air safety, and scientific research. "NASA really is uniquely positioned to address UAP, because we know how to use the tools of science and data to discern what might be happening out there in the skies," Evans said. "And, to be frank, no other agency is trusted as much by the public as us." ®
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[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/ufos-uapswhatever-we-call-them-why-do-we-assume-mysterious-flying-objects-are-extraterrestrial-180978374/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/us_house_ufa/
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/science&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Yv9fSH1didhn56Vudx0quwAAANA&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/10/nasa_ufo_study/
[5] https://www.space.com/nasa-ufo-study-progress-uap
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[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/us_house_ufa/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/21/us_congress_ufo_uap_bills/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/16/us_pentagon_ufo/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/11/technosignaturesaliens/
[12] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-set-up-independent-study-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/
[13] https://regmedia.co.uk/2022/08/18/nasa_uap_presentation.jpg
[14] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Wait...
Yep....
No bright pink flying restaurants around here....
Re: Wait...
No bright pink flying restaurants around here....
If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
assistant deputy associate administrator for research
Isn't this the equivalent of the paperboy?
Re: assistant deputy associate administrator for research
More like the intern deployed as the librarian's assistant flunky.
SpaceX
I wonder if the US Government has warned Musk and SpaceX to keep quiet about any "sightings" they may have had on their travels.
Re: SpaceX
"Musk" and "keep quiet" don't really mix!!
Re: SpaceX
On the bright side, anybody with a brain has tuned him out, with the exception of people paid to listen to him for one reason or another.
100k a year?
Given the NASA budget is £62,000,000 per DAY, then an annual budget of £100,000 is laughable
"no other agency is trusted as much by the public as us"
True. And that is valid world-wide.
Still, $100K for a nine month study with 15 experts ? That's around $700 per month per expert, if all the money is going to them which it logically won't be since there will be other costs.
So these experts will be working for peanuts.
Nice of them.
$100,000 budget! WOW!
That might even get ""some of the world's leading scientists, data practitioners, artificial intelligence practitioners, aerospace safety experts" into Vegas for a couple nights ... but they'll be woefully short on Jack Daniels, cocaine and hookers unless someone loosens the ol' purse strings a trifle.
Re: $100,000 budget! WOW!
100K is would be needed just for administrative malarky, not to mention paying anyone a salary...
a panel of 15 to 17 experts
Sharing $100,000 works out at around $6,000 each. After nine months they push out ONE REPORT between the lot of them, collect their cash and go back to their day jobs.
"We're going full force," said the assistant-emptier-of-trash-baskets. Guys, that's the minimum budget needed to get all the experts up to speed with the Microsoft Office ribbon. The report itself will have to be copy-pasted from the Internet.
Re: a panel of 15 to 17 experts
This being the real world we can reasonably assume the experts are already employed and paid or are tenured academics so the $100k will only need to cover additional expenses such as transport and occasional hotel costs and perhaps one or two part-time employees to coordinate the experts and collate any data collected.
My tribute to Professor Josef Allen Hynek
I wrote him a letter when I was seven, and he had the exceptional decency to reply.
I'd bought his book, "The UFO experience : a scientific inquiry" - and any book was a lot of money for seven year olds.
I told him many adults around here had seen UFOs up close, and me and my mates had seen them in the sky. I asked him to send us money to buy binoculars and we'd monitor them at night, form a group and spread the word. He didn't send me money of course, the bastard, him being a professor and me being in primary three. He was so charming and encouraging though, and his books were wonderful to read. I don't know if it was ironic but "The UFO experience : a scientific inquiry" was in a Blue Book cover.
Tiddly tiddly tiddly tiddly
Pom pom pom
Where are Mulder and Scully when you need them?
So why?
Clearly the budget is insufficient to do anything. Is this just a speculative land grab by NASA?
Do the higher up's at NASA think that there is a real possibility that UFO's are real? If so, why the paltry budget?
But if not, why the budget at all?
This makes no logical sense. If they were spending tens of millions it would be clear. If they were spending nothing it would be equally clear. But a $100k budget is just confusing.
The answer is out there !!!
Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells,
"This makes no logical sense. If they were spending tens of millions it would be clear. If they were spending nothing it would be equally clear. But a $100k budget is just confusing."
It is known as 'Token Effort' or 'Kicking the can down the road --- NASA Style'. !!!
You claim the justification for the report BUT really do not want the report or care about the contents of the report.
Probably it is a item on a list that just will not go away, so you make a 'Token Effort' at completing the task.
By time it is delivered, if ever, and the report subsequently analysed, it will be forgotten about and any follow up will be much much further down the list of priorities.
[A 'Can' has been duly kicked down the road, maximum result for minimum effort/cost] !!!
Is it neccesary?
There are 1.4 billion motor vehicles and maybe as many as 20% have dashcams which to me seems a bit high so let's be conservative and say 10% and of them only 1% are in use at any given time, that's 1.4 million video cameras filming 24/7.
And that's before we get onto security cameras, door bell cameras, amateur astronomers gazing in the sky every night with cameras on their telescopes, civilian imaging satellites pointing at the earth that can see everything flying under them. The planet has never been under the level of photographic and electronic surveillance that it is now.
If there was something to be seen, it would be on video by now.
Re: Is it neccesary?
"If there was something to be seen, it would be on video by now."
Well your puny human mind would jump to that conclusion but we, err, them aliens have cloaking devices, sensors to detect and evade recording devices and a map of every camera on your, err, the planet.
Also humans are easy to fool. 'Look over there! A elliphunt!!'
Re: Is it neccesary?
"If there was something to be seen, it would be on video by now."
And if there are videos or photos, how many are elaborate pranks?
[1]http://www.openminds.tv/virgins-ufo-prank-frightens-police-april-fools-day-1989/26742
[1] http://www.openminds.tv/virgins-ufo-prank-frightens-police-april-fools-day-1989/26742
Re: Is it neccesary?
DJO,
"If there was something to be seen, it would be on video by now."
It is, but only available directly from Area 51 !!!
BTW, all the CCTV, dashcams etc etc are there not to provide evidence of UAP or even increase our/your security *BUT* to monitor 'us' so the video evidence can be tracked and 'retreived' and filed away in Area 51. !!!
:)
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Re: Is it neccesary?
Hey look! A UFO! Quick, grab the worst camera you can find with the lowest resolution and make sure your hands are shaking and the UFO out of focus.
Re: Is it neccesary?
There's the movie trope of UFO's causing electrical devices to pack-in when they're near by, so anything short range ( dash cam, door cam ) wouldn't be able to pick up aliens landing at Knutsford Service's/your front garden and they wouldn't have any clarity at a distance.
Re: Is it neccesary?
Ah but the iconic Mr Holmes would deduce that tracking clusters of failing electronic devices would provide a unmistakeable trail.
Wait...
...Did NASA just say "Trust me" ???