NASA acknowledges that they need to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) more, so they recently created a new (unidentified flying object) UFO task force. Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the British military in the 1990s, suggested Brits do the same.
Brits Should Have UAP Probe Like NASA
Pope shared his thoughts about UAPs in the United Kingdom. In his opinion, it's high time the country follows how the Americans deal with UFOs. He was previously part of a military unit that investigated UFOs.
For Pope, it was "outrageous" that ministers were not "taking significant action" to look into UFOs, now known as UAPs.
According to him, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) needs to restart its UAP investigations, establish some task force, and hold the MoD accountable for UAP like the US Congress's Armed Services Committees in both the Senate and the House.
Pope alleged that defense personnel relied on the lazy, pessimistic, and "it can't be, so it isn't" mentality, potentially missing serious foreign threats to UK territory. A former British UFO Research Association investigations director, Philip Mantle, believes otherwise.
Mantle claimed that the MoD has repeatedly claimed that no UFO or UAP sighting has ever indicated a threat to the UK; as a result, they are of little significance for defense, so the MoD is not interested. A UFO taskforce would be "pointless" to create at this time, he continued.
In 2009, the MoD shut down its UFO desk, and none has ever taken its place. Before that, it conducted a UFO investigation that was very classified and in-depth at the time, looking into more than 10,000 potential sightings over several decades, many of which were reported by military personnel.
The so-called Project Condign investigation concluded that 81% of sightings could be easily explained, 19% were caused by covert military aircraft, and 1% were of unknown origin.
The MoD acknowledged that there will always be UAP and that any unexplained are probably just "an unknown kind of plasma" and not a cause for alarm. The MoD has repeatedly maintained that no sighting of a UFO or UAP has ever indicated a threat.
US Creates New UFO Taskforce
NASA recently established a new division to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), formerly known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Bill Nelson, the administrator of NASA, revealed the new task committee last week. Mark McInerney, a former meteorologist and Pentagon liaison, was named the first director of the new taskforce.
NASA's assistant administrator, Nicola Fox, first stated that they would withhold the identity of the person in charge of the new team. It didn't take long before McInerney's identity was made public.
After deciding that UFOs must be looked into, NASA agreed to establish a new branch to research UAP. It follows after the study by the specialized UFO team that the space agency commissioned in 2022 was made public and concluded that UAP is still mysterious and needs more research.
Nelson claims that because the bulk of UAP sightings produce little to no data, it is challenging to draw scientific conclusions on the nature of UAPs. He said they will use machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate UAP-related irregularities.
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