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posted by hubie on Saturday June 11 2022, @07:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the study-experts-assemble! dept.

NASA is assembling a team to gather data on unidentifiable events in the sky:

The team will gather data on "events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena -- from a scientific perspective," the agency said.

NASA said it was interested in UAPs from a security and safety perspective. There was no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin, NASA added. The study will begin this fall and is expected to take nine months.

"NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also," said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

"We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space -- and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry. We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That's the very definition of what science is. That's what we do."

NASA to Set Up Independent Study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena:

NASA is commissioning a study team to start early in the fall to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) – that is, observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena – from a scientific perspective. The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.
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The study is expected to take about nine months to complete. It will secure the counsel of experts in the scientific, aeronautics, and data analytics communities to focus on how best to collect new data and improve observations of UAPs.

"Consistent with NASA's principles of openness, transparency, and scientific integrity, this report will be shared publicly," said Evans. "All of NASA's data is available to the public – we take that obligation seriously – and we make it easily accessible for anyone to see or study."

Statistically, we are probably not alone. But do you think that we will make contact with another 'intelligent' life form in the future or never?


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  • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday June 11 2022, @11:22AM

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Saturday June 11 2022, @11:22AM (#1252487) Journal

    But do you think that we will make contact with another 'intelligent' life form in the future or never?

    Depends. Which summoning techniques are officially allowed in current epoch?
    (Nevermind, that's a rhetoric question.)

    Note that concept of Psychurgy as was still common in scientific population in late 19th Century is now completely erased from Internets, no books, no references, even the word itself got muddled meaning description today in dictionaries and Theurgy as is still kept tolerated as a concept is but explained very naively even on Wikipedia.

    Exorcists have already won their absolute power and enforced total denial.

    How can you make a contact with non-human intelligent entities if you deny their very existence first?

    Humans and beasts are different species, but foxes are between humans and beasts. The dead and the living walk different roads, but foxes are between the dead and the living. Transcendents and monsters travel different paths, but foxes are between transcendents and monsters. Therefore one could say to meet a fox is strange; one could also say it is ordinary.

    Human beings and physical objects belong to two different categories; fox-spirits stand somewhere between the two. The paths of light and darkness never converge: fox-spirits stand somewhere between the two. Immortals and demons go different ways; fox-spirits stand somewhere between the two.

    -- Ji Yun, 1789, in Notebook from the Thatched Cottage of Close Scrutiny

    https://infogalactic.com/info/Taiping_Guangji [infogalactic.com]
    https://academia.issendai.com/fox-chinese.shtml [issendai.com]

    --
    The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2022, @11:29AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2022, @11:29AM (#1252488)

    Lens flares and optical tricks.

    Love how this topic gets pushed to the public everytime the USA needs to create a distraction while they rape our rights and send weapons to other countries.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Opportunist on Saturday June 11 2022, @11:45AM (2 children)

      by Opportunist (5545) on Saturday June 11 2022, @11:45AM (#1252494)

      Don't you worry, there are still enough assault rifles around for you to buy some, just because the US sells some to kick some Ivan butt doesn't mean your can't buy one.

      Oh, sorry. Lemme guess, you're working for the ass that gets kicked, right?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 12 2022, @05:54PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 12 2022, @05:54PM (#1252775)

        They are not "assault rifles", you dumb slave bitch.

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by Opportunist on Monday June 13 2022, @05:25AM

          by Opportunist (5545) on Monday June 13 2022, @05:25AM (#1252904)

          Aww, you pissed that you don't get to play with the big boomboom machines?

          You can volunteer to play with them, ya know? Ukraine needs soldiers.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2022, @11:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2022, @11:36AM (#1252493)

    One of them is JFK, the original, not the Jr., coming back for the dead this weekend, according to the QAnon master. Or janrinok, who is nearly as crazy with his protection of the Insane Runaway.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by looorg on Saturday June 11 2022, @01:56PM

    by looorg (578) on Saturday June 11 2022, @01:56PM (#1252517)

    Why does every agency need their own UFO investigators ... it's almost like they don't trust each other ...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2022, @05:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2022, @05:06PM (#1252548)

    I've been trying to figure out why the MIC has been pushing UFOs. What purpose does it serve? Why a space force?

    Panem et circenses? World War 3? More domestic surveillance?

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2022, @09:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2022, @09:33PM (#1252603)

      Someone in charge needs to order them to figure out how to inject bleach in the lungs and nuke hurricanes. America could be so great again if we had the right leadership.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 12 2022, @12:46AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 12 2022, @12:46AM (#1252633) Homepage Journal

    Remember when every unexplainable incident was attributed to swamp gas? Well, thanks to fleets of satellites in the sky, we've narrowed it down from gas in general, to cow farts. Eat moar beef to battle the cow farts!

    --
    Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
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