NASA will hold a historic public meeting on UFOs this week and you’ll be able to watch all of it live online in a free webcast.
The agency will hold a gathering of the “independent study group” it formed nearly a yr ago in June 2022 with a purpose to study data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a brand new term that encompasses objects or occurrences within the sky, underwater or in space that cannot be immediately identified. The meeting will mark the primary time the group has discussed the outcomes of its UAP investigation in public. The four-hour meeting will likely be available to observe online courtesy of a free livestream on NASA TV starting at 10:30 a.m. ET (1430 GMT) on Wednesday (May 31).
Following the event, NASA will host an audio-only stream of a post-meeting media teleconference that can include Dan Evans of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, David Spergel, president, Chair of NASA’s UAP independent study team and other members of the agency’s UAP group.
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NASA created the group with a purpose to examine all of the info it has available which may make clear the UAP enigma and the way it’d help “move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward,” in accordance with a 2022 statement from the agency.
The 16-person study group includes former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly along with a wide range of experts from academia, the aerospace and aviation industries and even one science journalists. The team is just studying unclassified data, in accordance with a list of incessantly asked questions the agency released.
Thomas Zurbuchen, the previous associate administrator for science at NASA headquarters in Washington, said shortly after the group was announced that it was formed partly to “move the scientific understanding of UAP forward” and “take a field that is comparatively data poor and make it right into a field that’s far more data wealthy and due to this fact worthy of scientific investigation and evaluation.”
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NASA’s study group is just one among several U.S. government-funded groups formed to review UAP. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense created an office to review unidentified objects in space, air and water, and even people who appear to travel between them.
Despite studying a whole bunch of reported incidents involving UAP, the group’s director told the Senate Committee on Armed Services in April that the group has uncovered “no credible evidence to date of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics.”
