NASA UAP Independent Study Team report (2023)
🏛️ NASA
A 16-member outside panel, chaired by astrophysicist David Spergel, looked at how NASA could use science to study UAPs.
Key points
- It found no evidence that UAPs have an extraterrestrial origin, while saying it could not rule things out.
- It said the biggest problem is poor data: most sightings come from instruments not built to study them.
- It recommended crowdsourced reports, better calibrated sensors and artificial intelligence to sort data.
- NASA named a Director of UAP Research the same day.
Why it matters
It is the main civilian science agency’s view on how UAPs should be studied.
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NASA. (2023). NASA UAP Independent Study Team report (2023). https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdfRelated records
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