UFO NASA conference! What did the scientists say?

 Announced some time ago, NASA's UAP (UFO) conference took place a few days ago. We all wondered which aspect of this phenomenon would attract the attention of scientists from the US space agency. I invite you to familiarize yourself with a very abbreviated summary of this event.

The meeting focused on the growing public interest in the UAP and the need for rigorous scientific research. NASA strives to reduce the stigma associated with UAP reporting and encourages dialogue to meet the demand for responses. It was announced at the outset that the final report on the research on the various relationships will be released in the summer and posted on NASA's website.

An independent UAP study was initiated to create scientific tools to evaluate and categorize UAPs in the future. The goal is to obtain useful data that can explain the nature of UAP and contribute to scientific progress. Transparency, openness, and scientific integrity are emphasized as NASA's core values, guiding this public meeting and the entire seven-month research process.

As noted by Dr. Nikki Fox, deputy administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, existing eyewitness data is often unreliable and inconclusive because it can be affected by conventional objects or phenomena such as commercial aircraft, military equipment, weather and auroras. The lack of high-quality data makes it impossible to draw scientific conclusions about UAPs. The research team used unclassified data from a variety of sources, including civilian government entities and commercial data, to make their recommendations, which will be released in the summer.

Studying unclassified data is emphasized as beneficial to this research. While detailed military sensor readings may be classified as Top Secret, the UAP observations themselves are not. Dr. Fox emphasized that NASA relies on publicly available data and invited listeners to familiarize themselves with the NASA Open Data portal, where anyone can see their collections.

NASA specialists also took a moment to discuss the importance of data collection and the challenges that may arise when analyzing images taken by civilian cameras. They mentioned the illusions caused by pointing the camera towards the light source. As they noted, these anomalies can degrade data quality and create strange images.

Drawing from the experience of telescopes such as the James Webb Telescope and Hubble, they also described phenomena that can occur when observing bright stars or dust in a telescope, causing image saturation, bleeding and scattering with peculiar properties. According to NASA, only dedicated and well-calibrated instruments will be of real importance in the field of UAP research.

NASA has admitted that most of its data collection apparatus is concentrated around the continental United States due to legal restrictions and privacy concerns. Specialists are currently working to identify areas where they can be confident of detecting something anomalous without violating any regulations. They also mentioned the need for ground-based detectors to supplement search efforts.

The issue of the UAP collections so far sounded particularly interesting. The panel acknowledged that they had about 650 cases at their disposal at the time of a recent Senate hearing, but that number has since grown to over 800. They receive about 50 to 100 new reports a month, with the last significant jump in numbers due to the integration of Federal Aviation Administration data (FAA).

NASA estimates that cases displaying potentially anomalous features account for less than a single-digit percent, around 2 to 5 percent, of the entire database. Representatives of the UAP research office also expressed their willingness to integrate the search for anomalous phenomena with machine learning technology and other related AI models. It is not known how exactly they would analyze data from sensors or recordings, but NASA sees a lot of potential in this solution.

The discussion eventually turned to NASA's possible encounter with aliens or extraterrestrial life, and what the agency would do if such life were discovered. In response, scientists responded that NASA is actively involved in the search for extraterrestrial life, and their research is not a secret endeavor, but a topic that NASA is happy to share with the public. Scientists assured that the potential discovery of extraterrestrial life would be a momentous event, and NASA would carry out a thorough verification before issuing any official announcements on the matter.

All in all, NASA's involvement in UFO research will bring much-needed refinement and regularity to this subject. It is impossible to assess what will be included in the report published at the end of summer, but the words spoken the day before yesterday at the NASA conference filled with optimism. Skepticism and the scientific method have ignored the extraordinary spectacles above our heads for too long. It's good to know that this state of affairs is about to change. With any luck, other countries will follow the path of the American authorities.