NASA Says UFO Sightings Are Not Extraterrestrial
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The beginning of this summer was an exciting time for Americans who want to believe that the unidentified foreign objects our military planes keep observing during flights over American airspace may have extraterrestrial origins. In May, intelligence whistleblower David Grusch claimed there was a great conspiracy within the government to hide evidence of alien technology and remains — only he hadn't actually seen any of it. Nevertheless, two months later, Grusch and former pilots who had observed UFOs in the skies appeared before Congress. Grusch's claims helped renew official interest in the matter with several senators saying that they believed in a cover-up. But without concrete evidence, Grusch has resorted to broadcasting his ideas on comedy and pop-culture YouTube channels. And one of the pilots who testified before the House in July appeared before Mexico's Congress on the same day that a clearly fake alien was presented to lawmakers there as real.
More bad news for true believers came on Thursday when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration released its report on unidentified foreign objects — and did not find any evidence of an extraterrestrial source for what the government refers to as unidentified aerial phenomena. "At this point, there is no reason to conclude that existing UAP reports have an extraterrestrial source," the report states.
The 36-page document was the result of a months-long investigation by an independent panel at NASA, which involved 16 scientists and other experts, including retired astronaut Scott Kelly. The team investigated prior UFO observations to determine their origin, finding that it is "increasingly clear that the majority of UAP observations can be attributed to known phenomena or occurrences." The team frequently found that objects that looked like flying saucers in grainy videos were in fact terrestrial aircraft with distortions attributed to the effects of video compression. The report also states that human error to properly understand the actual velocity and acceleration of aircraft results in false diagnoses. (Skeptics have long said that pilots misapprehending the speed of other airborne objects are the source of the claims of impossibly high-speed craft.)
"The NASA independent study team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said on Thursday in a press conference announcing the report. "But we don't know what these UAP are," he added, acknowledging the many terrestrial incidents that the team was not able to explain. To shift from "sensationalism to science," Nelson announced that NASA will appoint a director of UAP research. The new role is tasked with "developing and overseeing the implementation of NASA's vision of UAP research" and to work with other agencies to "search the skies for anomalies."
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Given the decades long interest in the subject I'm a little surprised this story didnt get more play in the news today.
NASA is saying there is no evidence that unidentified aerial phenomena are exterrestrial in origin.
Now I guess we'll hear more mutterings of "cover-up".
Well, technically they are correct. There is also no evidence that unidentified aerial phenomena are terrestrial in origin either.
Three things about UFOs.
First, why is it almost all of the sightings are over the US or England?
Second: Why do we only get reports of these things after the inventions of flight and movies?
Third: Why would it be that a civilization capable of crossing interstellar space would suddenly become wildly incompetent such that they could be so easily spotted (and mostly by ordinary people on the ground) in only tiny flying machines and then crash?
Because our air space is the most open. How many drones are privately owned in the US and England? How many private aircraft are owned in those two countries? How many ham radios, cell phones, video recording devices, cameras, etc are there? Many sightings I am sure are not real- just mistaken grainy images of drones/aircraft. Russia and China control their media- think they are going to admit anything non enemy (US/NATO) related can violate their airspace and not be brought down? Think they will allow civilians to announce sightings of UFOs in their air space?
Who says there were reports before the invention of flights and movies? How many were discounted as drunken idiots and people with mental problems; or just flat out lying for attention? Some say that the Incas, Aztecs, Egyptians and others were visited by aliens. Or at least that is the way some interpret the hieroglyphics.
Why do US military aircraft crash during times of peace? Why do high technology planes develop problems during flights and crash. Why do steal drones and planes develop problems and become detectable. How did the Iranians bring down a US high tech stealth drone during the Obama administration? The more complicated something is in design- the more easy it is for something to go wrong.
Personally I think the vast majority of UFO sightings are misidentification. Some however are real. Who knows what our government is hiding? I am sure the Chinese and Russian governments as well (they are for more closed off than ours.