A NASA panel formed last year to study what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomena,” commonly referred to as UFOs, is due to hold its first public meeting on Wednesday, ahead of a report expected in the coming weeks.
The 16-member panel, bringing together experts from fields ranging from physics to astrobiology, was formed last June to examine unclassified UFO sightings and other data collected from the civilian government and commercial sectors.
The focus of Wednesday’s four-hour public session “is to carry out final deliberations before the agency’s independent study team publishes a report,” NASA said in announcing the meeting.
The panel represents the first inquiry of its kind conducted under the auspices of the US space agency into a matter that the government once entrusted to the exclusive and secret purview of military and national security authorities.
The NASA study is separate from a recently formalized Pentagon investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, documented in recent years by military aviators and analyzed by US defense and intelligence officials.
The parallel efforts by NASA and the Pentagon — both undertaken with some semblance of public scrutiny — highlight a turning point for the government after decades of debunking, debunking and discrediting sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, that date back to the 1940s. .
The term UFOs, long associated with notions of flying saucers and aliens, has been replaced in government parlance by “UAP”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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