NASA’s UFO kick has only intensified after the agency held its first public meeting on their study of them. The meeting revolves around a panel launched last year with the aim of compiling a report on UFOs using data-driven scientific standards. That report is due later this summer.
What was discussed at the meeting was pretty revealing.
The panel of experts said there have been around 800 events collected over the past 27 years, with all these sightings in Earth’s airspace. Many of these, though, can be determined to be commercial aircraft, civilian and military drones, or weather and research balloons.
However, between 2% and 5%of those events cannot, and were said to “display signatures that could be anomalous” and are not readily understandable. Around half of these reports involve unusual orbs or round metallic-looking. spheres.
“This is a typical example of the thing that we see most of. We see these all over the world and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers,” Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the US Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), told the crowd.
The hotspots of sightings were located on the east and west coasts of the US, over the Middle East, and in the Pacific. However, this is likely a sampling bias, as these are the parts of the world tightly monitored by the US military. The experts said their scientific study needs more high-quality data.
The panel was also keen to stress that NASA’s UAP study team has been harassed online, and it has undermined their efforts.
“It is really disheartening to hear of the harassment that our panelists have faced online all because they’re studying this topic,” commented Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
Hopefully, their task can be completed in spite of those trolls.
