NASA announced last year that it would investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). It will be doing its first meeting after months of investigation Wednesday.
NASA Will Have First Meeting About UAP
On May 31, NASA is scheduled to host a historic public discussion regarding UFOs as the once-mocked topic enters the mainstream, Space.com reported.
Since September of last year, an independent task team established by the space agency has been investigating strange objects in our skies and waters.
A comprehensive discussion of NASA's "science perspective" on UAP will be covered on the panel, along with more in-depth and unusual presentations, such as one in which a NASA astrobiologist breaks down "relevant observations" of anomalies "beyond Earth's atmosphere."
The conference will go down in history as the first time the American space agency has made any findings from its UAP probe available to the general public. It is anticipated to run for more than four hours, according to Daily Mail.
Many strange assertions and happenings that had previously spent decades on the periphery of scientific research have gained greater validity just by the agency's independent study team's existence.
Established in June 2022, the study committee has been tasked with investigating the viability and wisdom of using NASA's equipment and personnel to look for "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP).
The name UAP aims to widen the investigation into UFOs by including all unexplained phenomena, whether on land, at sea, or in space.
According to Harvard physicist Avi Loeb, who founded the UAP-studying, extraterrestrial-hunting Galileo Project, this group aimed to advise NASA on whether more research into this topic is necessary.
Loeb added that they were not permitted to conduct any research. They were instructed to listen to witnesses as they recounted what had previously been reported rather than conducting new scientific research.
Although their team plans to disclose the findings of their nine-month UFO research this July, the public hearing is starting to resemble an expansive interagency task force.
How to Watch NASA's Historic UAP Meeting
Both physicist Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and Mike Freie, a consultant to the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Surveillance Services Office, will present unidentified aerial phenomena sightings.
The meeting will be broadcast live on NASA TV, the organization's official YouTube channel, on Wednesday, May 31, at 10:30 am ET/14:30 GMT.
The panel will even respond to written inquiries from the general public that can be voted on via this NASA page.
The independent study committee was announced in June by Thomas Zurbuchen, the former assistant administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. He stated that NASA believes the methods of scientific discovery are effective and applicable in this instance, noting that they have access to a wide variety of observations of the Earth made from space, which keeps science alive. They also have the team and resources to help them better comprehend the unknowable.
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