NASA is NOW holding a historic public hearing on UFOs

NASA is working closely with the Pentagon’s official UFO investigators on top-secret cases, according to revelations from the first public meetings of the space agency’s new UFO study group, held live today.

The news came during a presentation to NASA’s panel by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) director, physicist Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick.

The AARO director also had an update on the mysterious “metallic orbs” in the air that were documented by an MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Middle East last year.

“We see these.” [‘metallic orbs’] “All over the world,” Kirkpatrick told NASA’s team of scientists and other experts, “and we’re seeing them doing very interesting apparent maneuvers.”

Kirkpatrick said the Pentagon is working closely with “NASA Embeds,” scientists cleared to work on classified UAP cases where their expertise could help military investigators identify the mysterious spacecraft or events.

NASA’s Independent UAP Study Group, along with officials from the Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration’s UAP investigation teams, will present their latest UFO findings

NASA’s study group, made up of 16 experts ranging from physicists to astronauts, was formed last June to investigate unclassified UFO sightings from the civilian government and commercial sectors

Kirkpatrick added that AARO plans to deploy “special sensors for typical UAP sightings,” equipment independent of the existing military defense sensors that UAPs have hitherto detected as part of their normal duties.

Both NASA Chief of Science, space and atmospheric physicist Dr. Nicky Fox and AARO director Dr. Kirkpatrick also took the time to reprimand unnamed individuals for harassing NASA board members. Both said these online and official attitudes have contributed to the societal stigma surrounding the UAP.

The chair of NASA’s independent UAP panel, theoretical astrophysicist David Spergel, described the group’s purpose as follows: “How can NASA contribute to understanding the nature of UAPs?”

He summarized the current state of data collection efforts on UAP as “disordered” and “fragmented across agencies,” often using instruments appropriate for their security mandate but “not calibrated for scientific data collection.”

Spergel added that some of the work done in this area has achieved the admirable status of ‘citizen science’. He cited previous anomalies, such as the fantastic reports of rising red flashes or sprites first reported by shocked pilots and initially dismissed by atmospheric scientists.

“If it’s something unusual.” “That makes it interesting and worth studying,” said Spergel.

UFO reports were first made by Chief AARO Director Kirkpatrick and an adviser to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Air Traffic Control, Mike Frei.

NASA’s Study Group, a group of 16 experts ranging from physicists to astronauts, was formed last June to examine unclassified UFO sightings and other data collected by the civilian government and commercial sectors.

The study group represents the first such investigation ever conducted by the US Space Agency on an issue that the government had previously placed within the purview of the military and national security officials, if given any respect or attention.

Today, these parallel efforts by NASA and the Pentagon, both undertaken with some semblance of transparency, mark a turning point in government public attitudes toward UFOs or UAPs.

After spending decades deflecting, debunking, and discrediting sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, dating back to the 1940s, Pentagon officials now say their latest foray into investigating such sightings has led to hundreds of new ones reports that are currently being examined.

Most, Pentagon officials claim, remain unsolved.

While NASA’s science mission was viewed by some as more promising for a more open-minded approach to a topic long considered taboo by the defense establishment, the US space agency made it clear from the start that it was unlikely to jump to conclusions.

“There is no evidence that UAPs are of extraterrestrial origin,” NASA said in announcing the formation of the panel last June.

In its more recent statements, the agency presented a new potential wrinkle of the UAP acronym itself, calling it an acronym for “unidentified anomalous phenomena.” This suggested that sightings other than those that appeared to be airborne could also be included.

Still, NASA, announcing Wednesday’s meeting, said the space agency defines UAPs “as observations of events in the sky that cannot be scientifically identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena.”