NASA is holding historic UFO public hearing NOW
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NASA Holds Historic UFO Public Hearing NOW: Agency Unveils First Findings From Investigation of Unidentified Craft in Our Skies AND Oceans
An “independent study group” formed by NASA last year is holding its first public meeting on Wednesday about what government officials call “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), more commonly known as UFOs.
The purpose of the panel’s meeting, according to a statement from the space agency, “is to hold final deliberations before the agency’s independent study team publishes a report this summer.”
The panel – that will go live on NASA TVthe agency’s official YouTube channel, at 10:30am ET, 2:30pm GMT on Wednesday, May 31 — will also answer written questions from the public for voting via a dedicated NASA page here.
In addition to a broad discussion of NASA’s “science perspective” on UAP, the meeting will feature more specific and exotic presentations.
Astrobiologist David Grinspoon, who advises NASA on space exploration strategies, will present “relevant observations” of anomalies “beyond Earth’s atmosphere” shortly after noon.
LIVE: NASA TV
NASA’s independent UAP study group, as well as officials from both the Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration’s UAP research teams, will present their latest UFO findings
NASA’s study group of 16 experts ranging from physicists to astronauts was formed last June to investigate unclassified UFO sightings and from civil government and commercial sectors
UFO reports will also be delivered by both the head of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), physicist Sean Kirkpatrick, and a consultant to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Surveillance Services Office, Mike Freie.
NASA’s study group, a collection of 16 experts ranging from physicists to astronauts, was formed last June to investigate unclassified UFO sightings and other data collected from the civil government and commercial sectors.
The study group represents the first research ever conducted by the U.S. space agency on a subject the government previously entrusted to military and national security officials, if it received respect or attention at all.
Today, these parallel efforts by NASA and the Pentagon, both undertaken with some semblance of transparency, mark a turning point in the government’s public stance on UFOs or UAP.
After decades spent defusing, debunking and discrediting sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, dating back to the 1940s, Pentagon officials now say their recent effort to investigate such sightings has led to hundreds of new reports currently under investigation.
Most, Pentagon officials claim, remain categorized as unexplained.
While NASA’s science mission was seen by some as a promise of a more open-minded approach to a topic long treated as taboo by the defense establishment, the US space agency said from the outset that it rarely jumped to conclusions.
“There is no evidence that UAPs are of extraterrestrial origin,” NASA said last June when announcing the formation of the panel.
In its more recent statements, the agency presented another potential wrinkle for the UAP acronym itself, referring to it as an abbreviation for “unidentified anomalous phenomena.” This suggested that observations other than those appearing in the sky may be included.
Still, announcing Wednesday’s meeting, NASA said the space agency defines UAPs “as observations of aerial events that cannot be identified from a scientific perspective as aircraft or known natural phenomena.”