“These atmospheric phenomena are of interest to both national security and aviation security”
The establishment of an independent committee that will undertake a study on aerial phenomena of unknown identity (UAPs) – which can not be scientifically identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) announced on Thursday.
The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to advance scientific understanding of UAP.
The limited number observations about UAP make it difficult at present to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of such events, NASA points out. These phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for both national security and aviation security, it is emphasized.
The agency’s independent study team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, who is president of the Simmons Foundation in New York and former chair of the Department of Astrophysics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Daniel Evans, Assistant Deputy Director for Research at NASA’s Science Mission, will serve as NASA’s coordinator of the study.
The study is expected to be completed in about nine months.
“In accordance with NASA’s principles of transparency and scientific integrity, this report will be made public,” Evans said. “All NASA data is available to the public – we take this obligation seriously – and make it easily accessible to anyone who sees or studies it.”
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