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NASA Finds No Evidence UFOs Are Extraterrestrial
Sky and Telescope ^ | September 15, 2023 | Monica Young

Posted on 09/15/2023 1:26:49 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

NASA has announced the results of a independent study commissioned to determine how the agency can contribute to understanding unidentified anomalous phenomena. UAPs are defined as objects or events that can’t (yet) be traced back to known objects such as aircraft, balloons, drones, or known natural phenomena including aurora or special types of lightning.

It’s worth noting that the panel in charge of this study was not commissioned to evaluate existing reports of UAPs (or UFOs, as they are more commonly known). The panel determined early on that they simply don’t have the data to evaluate past events, nor do they have any firm evidence indicating anything truly alien, and they confirmed that in yesterday's press conference. “We find no evidence to suggest that UAP are extraterrestrial in origin,” says David Spergel (Simons Foundation), who chaired the panel.

Rather than evaluating past reports, NASA’s goal is to evaluate future ones. The panel was therefore charged to see what resources NASA can bring to bear on systematic and scientific investigations of UAPs.

“UAPs are one of our planet's greatest mysteries,” says Nikki Fox, who heads NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, “and it's really due to the limited number of high-quality data surrounding such incidents that often renders them unidentifiable.”

The issue is three-fold: First, UAP reports are typically single sightings and lack multiple measurements. Those individual reports also often lack sensor metadata, such as the exact time of the event, the type of sensor, its noise characteristics, and other details. Finally, there’s a lack of baseline data to help understand whether an event is truly unusual.

(Excerpt) Read more at skyandtelescope.org ...


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1 posted on 09/15/2023 1:26:50 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The “noisiest” sensor is the human mind.


2 posted on 09/15/2023 1:27:44 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

3 posted on 09/15/2023 1:29:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

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4 posted on 09/15/2023 1:32:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

UFOs ==> A lot of fakes, a lot of mistakes, and a few that are simply “Dude WTF???”

That third category is the most interesting to me.


5 posted on 09/15/2023 1:32:37 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

MSM agrees that there is no evidence that the Bidens are extraterrestrials.
The FBI refused to comment, because the matter is under investigation.


6 posted on 09/15/2023 1:34:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: DoodleBob

Mister Rogers: “Won’t you be my neighbor?”


7 posted on 09/15/2023 1:36:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

NASA is more concerned with Diversity than exploration. Many government apparatchiks said masks worked. Many of the government types participated in hiding https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study.

Yeah, pretty skeptical of anything the gov tells me,


8 posted on 09/15/2023 1:38:19 PM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Then who can stop in midair, move half a mile in 1 second, stop again and then zoom off at probably 2,000 miles per hour?

As someone in the military said last year: If there is a country on earth that can do these maneuvers then we are in deep trouble.


9 posted on 09/15/2023 1:38:22 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The new spokesperson for NASA is Emily Littela.


10 posted on 09/15/2023 1:42:10 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Night Hides Not

well...nevermind


11 posted on 09/15/2023 1:44:08 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: frank ballenger
Then who can stop in midair, move half a mile in 1 second, stop again and then zoom off at probably 2,000 miles per hour?

Human misunderstanding.

12 posted on 09/15/2023 1:46:36 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: frank ballenger

Hey, if we’re gonna delve into conspiracy theories......
#1
Maybe the US developed these things. Who better to test them on than your own fliers and navy? They also have a built in deniability that way.

#2
After WW2 a fair number of NAZI officers and scientist escaped to S. America. We know they built stuff, they mined out caverns in mountainous regions and setup labs trying to create an atomic bomb to hit the US. They were never all caught.

Maybe they figured some other stuff out as well.

Either is more likely than that they came from 100 light years away.


13 posted on 09/15/2023 1:49:36 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: Fai Mao

I think it’s the Bigfoot community that is building them.


14 posted on 09/15/2023 1:51:47 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Maybe so.

I once saw a history of the Loch Ness controversy in which the tricky narrator said “In this filmed sequence you are about to see something unusual.” The lake water roiled and surged and a long, narrow living thing emerged and moved forward. It then surged again and you could see it was a really long, fat eel of some kind. The first seconds made it look like the arched neck of a dinosaur until the rest was revealed.


15 posted on 09/15/2023 1:53:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Fai Mao

RE: Maybe the US developed these things.

Sorry, I don’t buy it.

But I have no more way of knowing who is right than anyone here. Can’t argue.


16 posted on 09/15/2023 1:54:59 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Human misunderstanding imagination.
17 posted on 09/15/2023 1:56:55 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Can we PLEASE move on. We have real stuff to deal with...like immigrants invading my old hometown.


18 posted on 09/15/2023 2:00:04 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Anyone interested enough to find out what is behind this UFO phenomena and what maybe real and what may be not may want to watch this interview https://youtu.be/p2hk8Qp8dd0 The person being interview is an MD and is an expert on this subject and has researched it for more than thirty years. This interview is somewhat lengthy but since this is a multi faceted subject it cannot be explained in just a few minutes. Many technological advancement are pointed out in this interview which most likely will show up in the not too distant future. I believe it to be a very worthwhile interview to watch.


19 posted on 09/15/2023 2:02:52 PM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

My opinion is no one has ever seen anything in the sky that wasn’t man-made or natural phenomenon.


20 posted on 09/15/2023 2:05:32 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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