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Post by auntym on Jun 10, 2022 13:15:22 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-now-has-a-team-looking-into-ufos/ar-AAYjms4?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=8dcba1ad210b4a1899eb45e02adc880b© Illustration by Zoë Petersen, Deseret News NASA now has a team looking into UFOsby Gitanjali Poonia / 6-10-2022 On Thursday, the space agency announced it is establishing a team of independent researchers to study the unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, from a scientific perspective. “NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for science at NASA headquarters in Washington, per a press release. “We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space — and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry. We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That’s the very definition of what science is. That’s what we do.” Led by David Spergel, an astrophysicist and president of the Simons Foundations, the study will span nine months, with a team of “experts in the scientific, aeronautics and data analytics communities” to analyze the available data, create roadmaps for future collection and use the information to understand the phenomena better. This study could cost NASA up to $100,000, according to CNN. “Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can,” said Spergel, per the press release. “We will be identifying what data — from civilians, government, nonprofits, companies — exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it.” According to CNN, the space agency’s ultimate goal has been to find life outside of Earth — whether it’s on Mars through the Perseverance rover or through this study of UFOs. “We’re looking for the question of whether certain environments are in fact part of, if you want, the ladder of life that got us to where we are,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters, per the report. “There’s many times where something that looked almost magical turned out to be a new scientific effect,” Zurbuchen said. Last year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Pentagon’s UAP task force issued a report that suggested there was no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, but it did not explain most of the incidents, per CBS News. Congress is also asking questions as the House Intelligence subcommittee had its first hearing on UAPs after 400 reported incidents were recorded, as the Deseret News previously reported. The military even has a step-by-step procedure on how to report citing. www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-now-has-a-team-looking-into-ufos/ar-AAYjms4?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=8dcba1ad210b4a1899eb45e02adc880bNASA ASSEMBLES RESEARCH TEAM TO STUDY UFO SIGHTINGS ; www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-assembles-research-team-to-study-ufo-sightings/ar-AAYiFZq?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=bfc0568d5595450583c2b90824288270
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Jun 13, 2022 22:17:31 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jun 13, 2022 22:17:31 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-should-just-say-it-we-re-looking-for-*bleep*-aliens/ar-AAYqAuf?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=7911bf02a9524c7c8d5a03698be70956NASA Should Just Say It: We’re Looking for *bleep* Aliensby Tony Ho Tran / 6-13-2022 © Provided by The Daily Beast The great American UFO hunt is on—and NASA is officially throwing its hat in the ring. The agency announced last week that it’s launching a nine-month study into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), the U.S. government’s preferred term for UFOs. The project itself is a “scientific pursuit,” according to an agency press release, with the goal of identifying and aggregating specific pieces of data that could be used as part of a future research project into the origins of UAP. When the UAP study concludes, the results will be made available for the public. That will include public hearings as well as comment sessions about the findings. “This is the first step with any scientific experiment to identify what data we could possibly use to shed further light on the question of UAPs,” Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told The Daily Beast. Evans is also the designated federal official who’s responsible for appointing and organizing the experts who will take part of the committee. “We’re assembling a team of truly some of the world’s leading scientists, data practitioners, and aeronautics experts,” he added. “We’re going to lean on their collective expertise to tell us what data exists out there that we could positively use to shed further light on UAP.” The study is notable for a number of reasons—the biggest perhaps being that it’s the first ever official NASA study into UAPs. It’s also the first instance where the agency has said that it’s open to the possibility that UFOs are evidence of intelligent alien life. In both the press release and the conference held last week, the agency made a point to mention that they were already undertaking several efforts to find extraterrestrial life—but then went on to stress that this study wasn’t explicitly to find evidence of extraterrestrials visiting our planet. It’s the kind of bureaucratic vaguebooking expected from a government entity like NASA—especially when it comes to anything concerning aliens and UFOs. NASA has had a long history of being intensely skittish when it comes to extraterrestrial matters. After all, aliens have long been the bread and butter of conspiracy theorists, long-winded AM radio hosts, and sensational tabloid covers. When your organization wants to maintain a reputation of authority and reliability in the realm of science and technology, you wouldn’t want to touch something like UFOs with a 10-foot pole—especially since your funding is tied to congressional members who expect taxpayer dollars to go towards actual science and not conspiracy theories about little green men. But times have changed. The U.S. government has begun the slow roll out of UAP research and reports in recent years. Members of Congress have even announced their support of UFO research in the interest of national security. The Pentagon has even established a permanent UAP office along with a string of reports last year. These moves might have been enough for NASA to finally get a little less nervous about looking into UFOs. But the bad news for anyone who’s hoping NASA will provide irrefutable evidence of visitors from other planets is that the study’s scope is going to be fairly limited. In fact, it’s mostly going to be spent listening to a panel of experts who will be tasked with identifying and collecting data such as satellite imagery that could potentially contain footage of UAP. “There’s no analysis,” Evans explained. “It’s just to have the experts tell us what data we should use in the future to better study UAP.” So it’s important work, especially when you consider that it’s laying the groundwork for a future program to study the origins of UAPs. It just may not be the ET hunt some might hope for. But remember: NASA and its scientists are not ruling the potential for aliens out. The future UAP program does promise to be a deep dive into the origins of certain alleged extraterrestrial phenomena. No doubt, many hope that it’s going to reveal something about potential alien life. Regardless of what it finds, the agency is risking a lot by even wading into UFO discourse. NASA isn’t just staking its reputation with this study; it’s also putting taxpayer funding on the line. Evans believes this kind of risk needs to be embraced in the scientific community, since risky endeavors are how tech advancements occur and how some of the world’s most groundbreaking discoveries are made. “We’re really trying to encourage people to take intellectual risks and recognize that it might not always pay off,” said Evans, who views the UAP study as yet another example of high-risk, high-reward research. “We actually want failure because we want people to lean forward and not do incremental science. We may very well fail—but that’s okay, because we’ll learn.” Incidentally, though the biggest risk NASA could possibly take as part of this study would be to stop hedging and finally say it: We’re trying to find out if these UFOs are aliens. The American public, Congress, and the Department of Defense are all primed and ready for this. There’s no need for mealy-mouthed excuses and justifications for a UAP study. Regardless of how explicit the agency plans to be about its goals for the UAP study, it’s taking a giant leap into unraveling the enigmatic origins of UFOs—and getting us closer to finally answering whether or not the truth is out there. “It’s going to be a ton of fun,” Evans said. “I’m really excited about doing this.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-should-just-say-it-we-re-looking-for-*bleep*-aliens/ar-AAYqAuf?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=7911bf02a9524c7c8d5a03698be70956
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Post by auntym on Jul 19, 2022 17:47:48 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-is-nasa-conducting-a-new-study-on-ufos/ar-AAZL7cb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=d8a29895df624621bb6c5a17d5e7b7c2Why is NASA conducting a new study on UFOs?by William Gittins / 7-19-2022 NASA has commissioned a new study into what it terms as ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ (UAPs), more commonly known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. The agency has announced a project investigating reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), although extra-terrestrial explanations are not expected. This fall the space agency will be conducting its first significant study of UAPs from a scientific perspective, looking at how to identify existing data sources and how best to collect information in the future. Despite their mythology, credible reports of unidentified objects in the night sky are very rare, so scientists have a limited pool of data to draw from. The agency explains that the study will be of interest for “both national security and air safety,” with a particular focus on ensuring the safety of aircrafts in future. The study may pique the interest of sci-fi fans, but NASA is at pains to point out that their research is expected to unearth some fairly mundane explanations to UAP sightings. “There is no evidence UAPs are extra-terrestrial in origin,” the agency wrote in a statement. Related video: Pentagon reports about 400 UFO encounters during hearing View on Watch “The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.”😊 CONTINUE READING: www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-is-nasa-conducting-a-new-study-on-ufos/ar-AAZL7cb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=d8a29895df624621bb6c5a17d5e7b7c2
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Aug 19, 2022 14:58:26 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Aug 19, 2022 14:58:26 GMT -6
www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-identifies-candidate-regions-for-landing-next-americans-on-moonAug 19, 2022 NASA Identifies Candidate Regions for Landing Next Americans on MoonShown here is a rendering of 13 candidate landing regions for Artemis III. Each region is approximately 9.3 by 9.3 miles (15 by 15 kilometers). Shown here is a rendering of 13 candidate landing regions for Artemis III. Each region is approximately 9.3 by 9.3 miles (15 by 15 kilometers). A landing site is a location within those regions with an approximate 328-foot (100-meter) radius. Credits: NASA As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon under Artemis, the agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar South Pole. Each region contains multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III, which will be the first of the Artemis missions to bring crew to the lunar surface, including the first woman to set foot on the Moon. “Selecting these regions means we are one giant leap closer to returning humans to the Moon for the first time since Apollo,” said Mark Kirasich, deputy associate administrator for the Artemis Campaign Development Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “When we do, it will be unlike any mission that’s come before as astronauts venture into dark areas previously unexplored by humans and lay the groundwork for future long-term stays.” NASA identified the following candidate regions for an Artemis III lunar landing: Faustini Rim A Peak Near Shackleton Connecting Ridge Connecting Ridge Extension de Gerlache Rim 1 de Gerlache Rim 2 de Gerlache-Kocher Massif Haworth Malapert Massif Leibnitz Beta Plateau Nobile Rim 1 Nobile Rim 2 Amundsen Rim Each of these regions is located within six degrees of latitude of the lunar South Pole and, collectively, contain diverse geologic features. Together, the regions provide landing options for all potential Artemis III launch opportunities. Specific landing sites are tightly coupled to the timing of the launch window, so multiple regions ensure flexibility to launch throughout the year. To select the regions, an agencywide team of scientists and engineers assessed the area near the lunar South Pole using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and decades of publications and lunar science findings. In addition to considering launch window availability, the team evaluated regions based on their ability to accommodate a safe landing, using criteria including terrain slope, ease of communications with Earth, and lighting conditions. To determine accessibility, the team also considered combined capabilities of the Space Launch System rocket, the Orion spacecraft, and the SpaceX-provided Starship human landing system. NASA has announced the identification of 13 candidate landing regions near the Moon's South Pole for the Artemis III mission, the first crewed mission to the Moon's surface since 1972. This video features a data visualization showing the locations of all 13 regions, and highlights the interesting lunar topography and exploration potential of these areas Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Download this video and related multimedia in HD formats from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio All regions considered are scientifically significant because of their proximity to the lunar South Pole, which is an area that contains permanently shadowed regions rich in resources and in terrain unexplored by humans. “Several of the proposed sites within the regions are located among some of the oldest parts of the Moon, and together with the permanently shadowed regions, provide the opportunity to learn about the history of the Moon through previously unstudied lunar materials,” said Sarah Noble, Artemis lunar science lead for NASA’s Planetary Science Division. The analysis team weighed other landing criteria with specific Artemis III science objectives, including the goal to land close enough to a permanently shadowed region to allow crew to conduct a moonwalk, while limiting disturbance when landing. This will allow crew to collect samples and conduct scientific analysis in an uncompromised area, yielding important information about the depth, distribution, and composition of water ice that was confirmed at the Moon’s South Pole. The team identified regions that can fulfill the moonwalk objective by ensuring proximity to permanently shadowed regions, and also factored in other lighting conditions. All 13 regions contain sites that provide continuous access to sunlight throughout a 6.5-day period – the planned duration of the Artemis III surface mission. Access to sunlight is critical for a long-term stay at the Moon because it provides a power source and minimizes temperature variations. “Developing a blueprint for exploring the solar system means learning how to use resources that are available to us while also preserving their scientific integrity”, said Jacob Bleacher, chief exploration scientist for NASA. “Lunar water ice is valuable from a scientific perspective and also as a resource, because from it we can extract oxygen and hydrogen for life support systems and fuel.” NASA will discuss the 13 regions with broader science and engineering communities through conferences and workshops to solicit input about the merits of each region. This feedback will inform site selections in the future, and NASA may identify additional regions for consideration. The agency will also continue to work with SpaceX to confirm Starship’s landing capabilities and assess the options accordingly. NASA will select sites within regions for Artemis III after it identifies the mission’s target launch dates, which dictate transfer trajectories and surface environment conditions. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term, sustainable lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone for future astronaut missions to Mars. For more information on Artemis, visit: www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-identifies-candidate-regions-for-landing-next-americans-on-moon
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Aug 22, 2022 6:40:55 GMT -6
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Post by jcurio on Aug 22, 2022 6:40:55 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-is-nasa-conducting-a-new-study-on-ufos/ar-AAZL7cb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=d8a29895df624621bb6c5a17d5e7b7c2Why is NASA conducting a new study on UFOs?by William Gittins / 7-19-2022 NASA has commissioned a new study into what it terms as ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ (UAPs), more commonly known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. The agency has announced a project investigating reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), although extra-terrestrial explanations are not expected. This fall the space agency will be conducting its first significant study of UAPs from a scientific perspective, looking at how to identify existing data sources and how best to collect information in the future. Despite their mythology, credible reports of unidentified objects in the night sky are very rare, so scientists have a limited pool of data to draw from. The agency explains that the study will be of interest for “both national security and air safety,” with a particular focus on ensuring the safety of aircrafts in future. The study may pique the interest of sci-fi fans, but NASA is at pains to point out that their research is expected to unearth some fairly mundane explanations to UAP sightings. “There is no evidence UAPs are extra-terrestrial in origin,” the agency wrote in a statement. Related video: Pentagon reports about 400 UFO encounters during hearing View on Watch “The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.”😊 CONTINUE READING: www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-is-nasa-conducting-a-new-study-on-ufos/ar-AAZL7cb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=d8a29895df624621bb6c5a17d5e7b7c2 ______________________________ (I can’t believe that Mr. Bray said something about the “trash”, “Mylar balloons”, in our skies… while talking about our new sensory equipment)
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Post by auntym on Oct 10, 2022 19:47:35 GMT -6
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/10/william-shatner-space-flight-grief/William Shatner says his trip to space ‘felt like a funeral’ for EarthThe Star Trek actor, a longtime environmental advocate, described feeling grief for a planet in perilBy Jonathan Edwards / www.washingtonpost.com/people/jonathan-edwards/October 10, 2022 William Shatner finally goes to space on Blue Origin rocket
The 90-year-old “Star Trek” actor, along with three others, flew on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, the company’s second crewed flight, on Oct. 13. (Video: Reuters)William Shatner expected that going to space in October 2021 would induce “the ultimate catharsis” — a sense of connection between all living things. Instead, having stared into “the vicious coldness of space,” he found himself confounded as the Blue Origin spaceship landed and he stepped back onto Earth. Touching the ground, Shatner wept, and he wasn’t sure why. “Everybody else was shaking bottles of champagne, and it was quite a sense of accomplishment. And I didn’t feel that way at all. I was not celebrating. I was, I don’t know, shaking my fists at the gods,” Shatner told The Washington Post. It took Shatner several hours to realize what he was experiencing: “great grief … for the planet.” The actor, now 91, had been involved in environmental causes for years. But his Oct. 13 trip aboard the Blue Origin spaceship, which made him the oldest human to visit space, gave that work new urgency, he said. Juxtaposing its “cold, dark, black emptiness” with “the warm nurturing of Earth below” filled him with deep despair and sparked a realization. “I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound,” he wrote in an excerpt of his new book, “Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder,” that was published Thursday by Variety. William Shatner, Star Trek’s Capt. Kirk, flies to space and back, adding to this year’s number of civilian astronauts For three seasons in the mid-to-late 1960s, Shatner brought space, the final frontier, into American homes as Capt. James Kirk in “Star Trek: The Original Series.” It was around the time he was portraying the fictional commanding officer of the USS Enterprise that Shatner read Rachel Carson’s seminal ecological text “Silent Spring,” which he described last year as an eye-opener. “I read it and began to bleat about the warming of the planet,” he said. “But nobody took it seriously.” Still, Shatner kept bleating about the environment. He starred in the 1986 film “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” in which his crew travels back in time to save humpback whales, which were endangered at the time, because they’re the only creatures who can communicate with an alien probe that threatens to destroy the Earth. The movie was inspired by Greenpeace, which saw donations increase after the blockbuster’s release and reacted to the film by saying it “subtly reinforces why Greenpeace exists.” CONTINUE READING & WATCH VIDEO: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/10/william-shatner-space-flight-grief/
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Post by auntym on Nov 7, 2022 19:05:20 GMT -6
lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/nasas-talking-the-talk?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2NASA's talking the talkBut can its UAP team members walk the walk?by Billy Cox / substack.com/profile/27376895-billy-coxOct 28, 2022 America’s space agency promises to enter the UFO fray with “an open mind” — and when NASA talks, people do listen. Last October, CNN reporter Scott McLean cornered former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly between events at Expo 2020 in Dubai. McLean asked a couple of questions about international cooperation in space before getting to the point: “Do you believe in UFOs?” Kelly: “You mean like aliens?” “Yeah.” Kelly: “Like flying saucers?” “Yeah.” Kelly: “That visit this planet?” “Yeah.” Kelly: “No.” “Why not?” Kelly: “Because I don’t believe in ‘em.” OK, wait. Do you believe in UFOs – seriously? That’s how you want to begin a conversation about The Great Taboo with a veteran astronaut? What does that even mean, do you believe? Why not start off with something simpler, like Do you believe in the Virgin Birth? I mean, *bleep*, at least UFOs leave radar tracks. I thought about that CNN clip the other day when NASA revealed the list of 16 very accomplished citizens it named to evaluate America’s UFO problem. For the next nine months, the UAP Independent Study Team will, according to the press release, review the evidence, presumably reach a consensus, and then “recommend a roadmap for potential UAP data analysis by the agency going forward.” In other words, by next summer, we’ll see how seriously the space agency is taking an issue it should’ve rigorously engaged more than half a century ago. Scott Kelly – space shuttle pilot, ISS commander, twin brother of Arizona Senator Mark Kelly – is clearly the most recognizable name on the marquee. And that makes sense, NASA wanting a trusted member of the fraternity on board. Hey, it’s their idea. But the second part of his response to CNN put the ex-spaceman at stark odds with the consensus at the Director of National Intelligence office. Kelly rebutted the ET theory with the they-can’t-get-here-from-there argument. This was four months after the DNI issued its landmark 2021 report stating that “most UAP probably do represent physical objects” that “clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security.” But Kelly, a former naval aviator himself, shrugged off the testimony and footage captured by elite Navy pilots. ‘A little outrageous, to be honest’ CNN: “So you haven’t seen any piece of video that convinces you otherwise, everything is explainable?” Kelly: “When you’re flying in space, when you’re flying in an airplane in certain weather conditions, there are a lot of optical illusions. So I think, I’m not saying the people, especially the military people, that claim to see something that doesn’t make sense, as far as their understanding of technology – I’m not doubting that that’s what they think they saw. But I’m very skeptical that that is some kind of alien spacecraft. I think it’s a little outrageous, to be honest with you.” It's a familiar dodge, conflating the DNI’s findings of true unknowns with “alien spacecraft” because we can’t see the VIN numbers on those speeding anomalies. Though Kelly was enabled by a reporter’s clumsy framing of the question, the impulse to trash reports of exotic technology enjoying unimpeded access to restricted airspace by invoking “alien spacecraft” is a cop-out that’s served complacent institutions quite well. Exhibit A: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which for generations has ignored reams of UFO data and touted radiowaves as the only acceptable way to discover ET civilizations. Frank Drake, the radio astronomer who launched the first SETI sky scan in 1960, died last month without acquiring a shred of evidence to support his theory. Not surprisingly, his daughter, science writer and National Geographic contributor Nadia Drake, remains a fierce defender of dad’s legacy. When NASA announced its intentions to form the UAP Independent Study Team on June 10, she went full SETI and vented on Twitter. Like studying ghosts (?) “… is it weird that NASA is investing resources in studying UAP? Yes, in the sense that UAP are as much a cultural phenomenon as they are aerial,” she wrote. “It’s a bit like convening a task force to study ghosts or <pick your favorite paranormal thing>. Which yes, that’s odd. (And I think one of the biggest questions is: Why do this now??)” It was a fascinating tweet sequence. In the very next post, as if suddenly realizing that a lot of scrupulous eyes were paying attention, she softened her tone, somewhat. “On the other hand,” Drake immediately clarified, “it makes perfect sense for a space agency to focus on these reports. As others have noted, the first ‘A’ in NASA is ‘aeronautics.’ So why not take a look at what might be buzzing around Earth by harnessing the power of science and the scientific method?” Jeez, why didn’t Dad think of that 62 years ago? Nadia Drake’s on-the-other-hand equivocation extended a shout-out to Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, who had just announced the search for expert panelists. “I believe (Zurbuchen) when he said that it makes sense to apply the scientific method as we would with any natural phenomenon.” Furthermore, as if crafting the first draft of an audition, she added, “I don’t see this study as throwing a bone to the folks who truly believe we’ve been visited by extraterrestrials (sorry). It’s just a good way of figuring out how to address and understand a puzzling set of data.” Nevertheless, Drake couldn’t help reasserting dad’s lifelong Skepticism (“he has done his fair share of investigating sightings over the decades and has never been even remotely convinced”), and she restated her annoyance with NASA for going so low brow. “I’ll be disappointed if the big takeaway is that the study lends validity to the belief” – that word again – “that UAP are evidence of extraterrestrial technology.” A most curious omission NASA’s subsequent selection of Nadia Drake to its panel would’ve been a bit more reassuring if it had also made room for folks who actually have been “harnessing the power of science and the scientific method” to study UFOs. For the past few years, independent, credentialed and dedicated researchers with the nonprofit Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies have been publishing cutting-edge research and staging annual conferences for updates on active investigations. In fact, SCU’s reputation was good enough to be cited in Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act for inclusion in a proposed congressional “Aerial and Transmedium Phenomena Advisory Committee.” But for reasons never fully explained, SCU got cut out of those prospects, too. Probably just a coincidence. Anyhow, just for the hell of it, I forwarded email inquiries to the rest of the UAP panelists, trying to get a sense of where they were coming from on the issue: (Enter name): I’m a reporter who’s been writing about the UFO controversy for more than 40 years, initially at a daily on Florida’s Space Coast, and most recently at the Herald-Tribune in Sarasota. I left the newspaper business last year but I continue to follow the threads. Naturally, I’m intrigued by NASA’s new UAP committee and your role in it, so I’d like to acquaint readers with your interest in and knowledge of this issue. Although our cultural awareness goes back 75 years, I think it’s safe to say the subject didn’t get real until the NY Times expose in December 2017. Does your interest predate the Times piece? If so, what influenced you – books, films, particular cases, etc.? How were you selected for this assignment? Why did you agree to join? What aspect of this phenomenon do you find most compelling, and what evidentiary trail do you regard as most promising? Which organizations, institutions and/or researchers do you consider most reliable on this issue? What theories or hypotheses will you bring to the table? Reviewing classified data is not part of the NASA directive. But if in fact your research intersects with related national security issues, what level of transparency would you feel obligated to share with the public? Regards, (exit) The promise of transparency Is it unfair to ask designated experts to weigh in on a hypothetical scenario? Maybe. But try to imagine NASA’s unclassified sensor platforms detecting and recording UAP emerging from the waters near sub bases in New London or Kings Bay. Then imagine the U.S. Navy saying, yeah man, definitely, spread the news, Americans have a right to know. We need to be seriously clear-eyed about the limits of the space agency’s commitment to this eval. Especially when top officials like David Evans put out statements like this: “Consistent with NASA’s principles of openness, transparency, and scientific integrity, this report will be shared publicly,” stated Evans, who will be “responsible for orchestrating the study,” according to the June press release. “All of NASA’s data is available to the public – we take that obligation seriously – and we make it easily accessible for anyone to see or study.” Minimal feedback from the Independent Study Team. Astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the innovative Simons Foundation and appointed chair of the UAP committee, wrote “As we are in early stages of this study, we are not talking with the media. We want to wait until we are further along before we start to engage in these discussions.” Fair ‘nuff. A spokesperson for team member Karlin Toner, director of the FAA’s Office of Aviation Policy and Plans, wrote “The FAA is not doing interviews right now,” but she referred all queries to NASA’s FAQ page. You should check it out, it’s reassuring and worth repeating: “A full report will be released to the public in conjunction with NASA’s principles of openness, transparency, and scientific integrity.” And hey, don’t believe everything you hear from Independent Study Team members. “NASA,” it promises, “is going in with an open mind.” lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/nasas-talking-the-talk?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
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Post by auntym on Apr 7, 2023 1:03:52 GMT -6
Why We’re Going Back to the Moon - NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Astronauts
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Apr 6, 2023 #Colbert #NASA #Astronauts
The crew of NASA’s Artemis II moon mission, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, join Stephen Colbert to discuss how they’re preparing for their mission, and why they have their sights set on Mars as the next frontier for human exploration. Stick around for more with the Artemis II crew!
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Post by auntym on May 29, 2023 18:02:08 GMT -6
www.space.com/nasa-ufo-study-livestream-may-2023?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=space.com&utm_medium=social NASA's UFO task force meets on May 31 and you can watch it online with this free livestreamBy Brett Tingley 5-29-2023 The meeting will be available to watch online courtesy of a free NASA livestream.NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV
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Jun 1, 2023 12:53:07 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jun 1, 2023 12:53:07 GMT -6
www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezaz/mysterious-metallic-orbs-flying-all-over-the-world-pentagon-says-at-nasa-ufo-panel'' Mysterious Metallic Orbs Flying ‘All Over the World,' Pentagon Says at NASA UFO PanelKey takeaways from the first public meeting of NASA’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena independent study team.
By Becky Ferreira / www.vice.com/en/contributor/becky-ferreira5-31-2023 IMAGE: YOUTUBE/NASA Government officials have spotted mysterious metallic orbs flying all around the world, in addition to many other types of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), according to the first public meeting of NASA’s UAP independent study team, which was held on Wednesday. Speakers at the meeting emphasized the need to collect more high-quality UAP data and lamented the stigma surrounding this topic, which they said makes it less likely for people to report unidentified phenomena. Indeed, multiple speakers noted that members of NASA’s UAP study team have been subjected to harassment as a result of their work in this field. “It is really disheartening to hear of the harassment that our panelists have faced online all because they're studying this topic,” said Nicky Fox, associate administrator for the NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, during the meeting. “NASA stands behind our panelists and we do not tolerate abuse. Harassment only leads to further stigmatization of the UAP field, significantly hindering scientific progress and discouraging others to study this important subject matter.” NASA’s UAP study team was convened in 2022 with the mission of investigating the origin and nature of UAPs with rigorous scientific standards using mostly unclassified data. NASA and other agencies, such as the Pentagon, use the term UAP instead of the more widely known UFO, which stands for unidentified flying object, in part to expand the scope of these studies beyond the aerial domain to include unexplained phenomena in oceans, space, and on the ground. The team is made up of 16 members with a range of backgrounds, including NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, oceanographer Paula Bontempi, and David Spergel, a Princeton astrophysicist who serves as the chair of the study. The livestreamed meeting on Wednesday offered a sneak peek of some of the major findings of the study, which will be released to the public in a full report later this summer. The meeting included a presentation by Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the US Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), who shared tantalizing reports of unexplained metallic orbs seen at various locations on Earth. The presentation followed up on Kirkpatrick’s appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee in April, where he initially described an image of one of these orbs that was taken by a U.S. military MQ-9 Reaper drone during a routine mission in the Middle East in 2022. “This is a typical example of the thing that we see most of,” Kirkpatrick said during the Wednesday meeting. “We see these all over the world and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers. This one in particular, however, I would point out, demonstrated no enigmatic technical capabilities and was no threat to airborne safety.” “While we are still looking at it, I don't have any more data other than that,” Kirkpatrick added. “Being able to come to some conclusion is going to take time, until we can get better resolved data on similar objects that we can then do a larger analysis on.” Kirkpatrick also shared newly-released footage of UAPs spotted during an aircraft training mission in the Western United States that have been provisionally identified as commercial aircraft. He noted that AARO receives an average of 50 to 100 reports of UAPs per month, though sometimes that sightings spikes due to weird events, like the Chinese balloon incident in February or Starlink launches. Only about 2 to 5 percent of reported UAP sightings turn out to be “really anomalous,” Kirkpatrick said. “The majority of unidentified objects reported to AARO and in our holdings demonstrate mundane characteristics of readily explainable sources,” Kirkpatrick explained. “While a large number of cases in AARO’s holdings remain technically unresolved, this is primarily due to a lack of data associated with those cases.” “Meanwhile, for the few objects that do demonstrate potentially anomalous characteristics, AARO is approaching these cases with the highest level of objectivity and analytical rigor,” he continued. “AARO has shared these cases with the appropriately cleared NASA team members in order to discuss and help recommend potential scientific areas of study that NASA may want to take lead on.” To that point, many speakers at the meeting addressed the dire lack of high-quality data on UAPs, which has scuttled attempts to explain some of the most ambiguous sightings. The study team will include recommendations for collecting better data and building more efficient information-sharing systems in their report, which could help to finally solve many of the most perplexing UAP sightings—though at least some of the truth will likely remain out there. “The current existing data and eyewitness reports alone are insufficient to provide conclusive evidence about the nature and origin of every UAP event,” said study chair David Spergel during the meeting. “They're often uninformative due to lack of quality control and data curation. To understand UAP better, targeted data collection, thorough data curation, and robust analyses are needed. Such an approach will help to discern unexplained UAP sightings, but even then there's no guarantee that all sightings will be explained.” www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezaz/mysterious-metallic-orbs-flying-all-over-the-world-pentagon-says-at-nasa-ufo-panel''
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Post by auntym on Jun 2, 2023 22:56:04 GMT -6
thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4030026-us-military-has-been-observing-metallic-orbs-making-extraordinary-maneuvers/US military has been observing ‘metallic orbs’ making extraordinary ‘maneuvers’BY MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF / 06/02/23 At a historic NASA briefing on UFOs — “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP) in government parlance — a key Defense Department official made a striking disclosure. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of a new UAP analysis office, stated that U.S. military personnel are observing “metallic orbs” “all over the world.” An image, along with two brief videos of such objects are now publicly available. According to Kirkpatrick, spherical objects account for the largest proportion — nearly half — of all UAP reports received by his office. Critically, some of these objects are capable of “very interesting apparent maneuvers.” To be sure, rigorous scientific analysis may ultimately identify a prosaic explanation for such observations. In the meantime, however, such “metallic orbs” are prima facie evidence of extraordinary technology. After all, how would spheres, lacking wings or apparent forms of propulsion, execute “maneuvers” of any kind? In his presentation, Kirkpatrick also described the UAP characteristics most frequently received by his office. This range of attributes, in short, amounts to a UAP profile that Kirkpatrick’s staff is “out hunting for.” Intriguingly, this profile includes small (3 to 13 feet in diameter) “spherical” objects capable of flight at a range of velocities, from “stationary” to twice the speed of sound, despite a perplexing absence of “thermal exhaust” such as heat from an engine. Of particular note, as Kirkpatrick made clear, some of these highly anomalous characteristics are observed via multiple sensors. Former U.S. Navy fighter pilot Lt. Ryan Graves has described daily encounters with unidentified objects exhibiting characteristics strikingly similar to those described by Kirkpatrick. While training off the U.S. east coast in 2014-15, Graves and at least 50-60 fellow naval aviators observed unknown objects, frequently via multiple sensors, that remained stationary over the ground even in hurricane-force winds, or traveled at speeds faster than sound. Although the aircrew rarely observed the objects visually, a harrowing near-midair collision marked the first time a naval aviator in Graves’s squadron had observed one of the objects at close range. According to the pilot, the object appeared as a dark-colored cube inside of a clear sphere. As if to confirm, Kirkpatrick noted at the NASA event that “translucent” spheres are among the most commonly reported UAP characteristics. Contemporaneous U.S. Navy “hazard reports” memorialize the exasperation of naval aviators and their commanders following the April 2014 near-collision. According to one such document, Graves’s squadron considered the spheres, which flew with impunity in tightly-controlled training airspace, a “critical risk” and “a severe threat to Naval Aviation.” A few days earlier, a separate hazard report described an unknown object, observed via both radar and infrared sensors, hovering motionless at “0.0 Mach,” much like the “stationary” spherical objects frequently reported to Kirkpatrick’s office. Similarly, a hazard report from the previous day describes two objects — both confirmed via radar and infrared sensors — hovering in place. However, in this incident, two other UAP fly past the stationary objects “at a high speed.” Graves’s exasperated squadron commander punctuates the report by stating that “it is only a matter of time before this results in a midair” collision. Less than a month earlier, a hazard report filed in the same area by a different squadron describes an aircrew encountering “a small metallic object” “approximately the size of a suitcase,” matching, once again, the commonly-reported characteristics described by Kirkpatrick. The squadron commander, similarly incensed by the dire flight safety risk posed by the frequent UAP encounters, wrote that “it may only be a matter of time before one of our F/A-18 aircraft has a mid-air collision.” While he had less flexibility to investigate after he deployed, Graves recalls observing similar anomalous radar contacts as his squadron moved to the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. This is consistent with Kirkpatrick’s statement that such UAP are observed “all over the world.” A few years later, a test pilot flying in a nearby evaluation range told Graves of an encounter with one of the commonly reported objects. According to Graves, a spherical UAP was “just riding along with him,” about 30 feet from the aircraft, before it “zipped off.” A declassified report matching the general details of the incident describes a test pilot’s encounter with a “sphere.” More recently, one of Graves’s former student pilots, along with a senior officer, observed one of the spheres. As Graves’s former student told him," The object looked exactly like what you said, cube in a sphere. They’re still here.” Importantly, the spheres are associated with one of the best-known UAP encounters. The 2015 “Gimbal” video is arguably the most recognizable publicly available UAP footage. Recorded at the end of a complex pre-deployment training mission, Graves recalls that the “Gimbal” UAP flew in a loose formation with a “fleet” of four to six objects which, based on their perplexing radar signatures, resembled the objects observed daily by aviators off the East Coast. During the post-mission debrief, a thorough review of the sensor data from the “Gimbal” incident “left a crowd of fascinated intelligence officers and aircrew” perplexed enough to summon the highest ranking officer aboard the aircraft carrier. The admiral, exasperated by the frequent UAP incursions into the carrier’s airspace, and the “Gimbal” incident in particular, reported the incident to the Office of Naval Intelligence. Moreover, during the recent briefing by NASA’s Independent Study Team, a panel member mathematically analyzed the “GoFast” UAP video. Such open, transparent academic engagement with noteworthy UAP incidents is a much-welcome development. Importantly, by virtue of its connection to the “Gimbal” incident, the “GoFast” video has a plausible link to the anomalous spherical UAP observed frequently by naval aviators. “GoFast” was recorded hundreds of miles offshore, just 10 minutes prior to the “Gimbal” incident, and by the same aircrew. While the NASA study team member who analyzed the video employed basic trigonometry to conclude that the cold, sphere-like “GoFast” object was traveling relatively slowly (about 40 miles per hour), citizen scientists — UFO skeptics and “agnostics” alike — have created three-dimensional models that recreate the effect of the strong winds that evening. When accounting for wind, which can alter such geometrical reconstructions significantly, current analyses show that the “GoFast” object must travel far faster, at approximately 115 (versus 40) miles per hour. Moreover, the orb-like “GoFast” UAP would potentially move even more rapidly if a key figure pertaining to range is incorrect, as current and former aviators deem likely. Hopefully, by drawing on NASA’s deep scientific expertise, the mystery of the “metallic orbs” observed globally can be resolved satisfactorily. WATCH VIDEO; thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4030026-us-military-has-been-observing-metallic-orbs-making-extraordinary-maneuvers/
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Jun 7, 2023 12:58:12 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Jun 7, 2023 12:58:12 GMT -6
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Jul 25, 2023 22:33:36 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 25, 2023 22:33:36 GMT -6
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Aug 25, 2023 13:24:30 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Aug 25, 2023 13:24:30 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-research-scientist-is-absolutely-certain-there-are-aliens-in-our-solar-system/ar-AA1fLX8m?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=27f5a3dd9b624b359888e4ba760a9e65&ei=26 NASA Research Scientist Is ‘Absolutely’ Certain There Are Aliens In Our Solar System
Story by Douglas Charles / 8-25-2023 Venus NASA research scientist Dr. Michelle Thaller says she definitely thinks we will find aliens on another planet and that the chances are very especially good on Venus and Mars. Speaking to the US Sun at Beyond the Light, an exhibition at Artechouse in New York, Thaller said, “I definitely think we’ll find life on another planet. “I think that in our own Solar System, we’re quite close to it but once again we don’t have that 100 percent thing. “On Mars, we see chemistry that on Earth if it were here we would say is due to life. “But the question is, how well do we understand Mars and are we being fooled by something?” In 2022, scientists learned that fossilized microorganisms and chemical signatures of alien life may have been preserved in meteorites found on the surface of Mars. Venus, Earth’s so called sister planet, is another planet that has been heavily scrutinized in researchers’ search for alien life. “We see possible signs of life in the atmosphere of Venus,” Dr. Thaller continued. “Possibly underneath the ice in the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn. “The Solar System may be teaming with simple life, microbial life. “We just have to get that 100 percent certainty to say that we found it and we don’t have that yet.” In 2020, research conducted by the Royal Astronomical Society revealed the presence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus “This could be the first observation we’ve made which reveals an alien biosphere and, what do you know, it’s on the closest planet to home in the entire cosmos,” David Grinspoon of the Planetary Science Institute said at the time. CONTINUE READING: www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-research-scientist-is-absolutely-certain-there-are-aliens-in-our-solar-system/ar-AA1fLX8m?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=27f5a3dd9b624b359888e4ba760a9e65&ei=26
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Post by auntym on Oct 13, 2023 14:37:44 GMT -6
Have Aliens Stopped NASA From Returning To The Moon? | NASA's Unexplained FilesQuest TV Oct 13, 2023 Despite having Apollo 18 & 19 funded and prepared, NASA's return to the Moon since 1972 has been delayed. Could the reason be the discovery of "space junk" in this untouched environment? Join us as we explore the mysteries behind the Moon missions' halt.
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Post by auntym on Nov 13, 2023 16:11:47 GMT -6
www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/time-is-running-out-to-add-your-name-to-nasas-europa-clipper/Time Is Running Out to Add Your Name to NASA’s Europa Clipper11-13-2023 The “Message in a Bottle” campaign offers everyone the opportunity to have their name stenciled onto a microchip bearing U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa.” The chip will ride aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter and its moon Europa. NASA/JPL-Caltech Six weeks remain for you to add your name to a microchip that will ride aboard the spacecraft as it explores Jupiter’s moon Europa. It’s not every day that members of the public have the chance to send their names into deep space beyond Mars, all the way to Jupiter and its moon Europa. But with NASA’s Europa Clipper, you have that opportunity: Names will ride aboard the spacecraft as it journeys 1.8 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to this icy moon, where an ocean hides beneath a frozen outer shell. The deadline to join the mission’s “Message in a Bottle” campaign is only six weeks away. The campaign closes at 11:59 p.m. EST, Dec. 31, 2023. So far, about 700,000 names have been submitted. Once all the names have been gathered, technicians in the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California will use an electron beam to stencil them onto a dime-size silicon microchip. Each line of text is smaller than 1/1000th the width of a human hair (75 nanometers). See how your name will be stenciled onto a dime-size microchip at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This video takes you into the Microdevices Laboratory. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The chip will be attached to a metal plate engraved with the original poem “In Praise of Mystery,” written by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón to celebrate the mission. Riding on the exterior of the spacecraft, the poem and names will be like a message in a bottle as they make about 50 close flybys of the ocean world. The mission will log a half-billion miles (800 million kilometers) during these orbits as the spacecraft’s payload of science instruments gathers data on Europa’s subsurface ocean, icy crust, and atmosphere to determine if the moon could support life. Once assembly of Europa Clipper has been completed at JPL, the orbiter will be shipped to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for its October 2024 launch. “Message in a Bottle” draws from NASA’s long tradition of shipping inspirational messages on spacecraft that have explored our solar system and beyond. The program aims to spark the imaginations of people around the world as the Voyager spacecraft did in 1977 by sending a time capsule of sounds and images reflecting the diversity of life on Earth. To sign, read the poem, and hear Limón recite it in an animated video, go to: go.nasa.gov/MessageInABottleThe site also enables participants to create and download a customizable souvenir – an illustration of your name on a message in a bottle against a rendering of Europa and Jupiter – to commemorate the experience. Participants are encouraged to share their enthusiasm on social media using the hashtag #SendYourName. More About the Mission Europa Clipper’s main science goal is to determine whether there are places below Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, that could support life. The mission’s three main science objectives are to determine the thickness of the moon’s icy shell and its surface interactions with the ocean below, to investigate its composition, and to characterize its geology. The mission’s detailed exploration of Europa will help scientists better understand the astrobiological potential for habitable worlds beyond our planet. Find more information about Europa here: europa.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/time-is-running-out-to-add-your-name-to-nasas-europa-clipper/
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Jan 2, 2024 16:12:09 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jan 2, 2024 16:12:09 GMT -6
POOPING IN SPACE Dec 13, 2023
Former NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino shares his challenging journey to becoming a NASA astronaut and the lessons that led to his book “Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible”, his thoughts on the existence of intelligent life in the galaxy, and the extensive potty training required to learn how to poop in space.
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Post by auntym on Jan 22, 2024 14:50:30 GMT -6
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/the-truth-is-out-there-on-an-appThe Truth Is Out There, on an AppA NASA report recommended crowdsourcing possible U.F.O. sightings. The founder of Enigma Labs explains how they’re already sorting and rating them according to plausibility.By Matthew Hutson / www.newyorker.com/contributors/matthew-hutsonJanuary 22, 2024 Illustration by João Fazenda Are aliens among us? Last September, nasa released its Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team Report. (“U.A.P.” is just a rebranding of “U.F.O.,” without the flying-saucer baggage.) The study team recommended that nasa collect and analyze more types of data in more types of ways than ever before. The agency has long had satellites and supercomputers at its disposal; the report said that it should also branch out into smartphone apps, for crowdsourcing sightings. The creator of one such app, Enigma Labs, was not named in the report, but its authors have met with the company. Enigma’s founder and C.E.O. is something of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon herself. Publicly, she goes by a single initial, “A.” “It has allowed me to really focus,” she said of the pseudonym recently, at Enigma’s offices, on the Lower East Side, “because there’s so much noise out there. The Internet’s full of keyboard warriors.” Citizens report U.A.P. sightings on the Enigma app and can also view reports clustered by location. An augmented-reality lens lets users point a phone upward, and then displays and I.D.s planes, satellites, and other mundane objects. A, who is tall and thin, said, “It’s Shazam for what’s in the skies.” There’s also a camera feature that records uncompressed video and embeds metadata, such as filming location and angle, for later description and verification of phenomena. A expects the app to inspire a growing movement. “It’s no different from people who go to Burning Man or are into wellness, meditation, yoga, psychedelics, all that stuff,” she said. “What we’re really banking on is this movement that I think SpaceX, the Webb telescope, all of this, is driving, which is just as interesting—Are we alone?” She described the range of experiences that users report: “At the very casual end, it’s, ‘I was drunk and saw a Starlink,’ or whatever. On the very extreme end, it’s, ‘This moment was the biggest moment in my life.’ ” While implementing data science, the team wants to offer a safe space for users who may feel traumatized and isolated. Enigma Labs decided not to mark cases on the app as resolved (when, say, the U.A.P. is clearly a balloon); they won’t harsh anyone’s buzz. “We’re in listening mode,” A said. As opposed to Martian hunters who fixate on little green men, A said, “we see ourselves as a quite clean break from the past, and just approaching it as a Silicon Valley startup would approach any problem.” Enigma is in talks with government agencies about combining its reports with radar and satellite data. She went on, “The holy grail is to have the low-side civilians and the high-side eyes on the same thing.” Two Enigma data scientists joined A in a conference room to discuss how they were using machine learning to assign a score to sightings, based on factors such as credibility and unidentifiability. The algorithm is still a work in progress. A recent browsing of sighting reports included one, from Delaware City, which began, “Watching vintage baseball game, spotted 4, stationary, metallic objects to the north of our location.” A photo reveals what look like marker balls on power lines. (Score: 36 out of 100.) Another user posted a video of a black dot in a blue sky, perhaps a bag in the breeze, near the Empire State Building. “It’s like doing a breaststroke motion,” the observer commented. “It kind of looked like it was swimming through gravity waves.” (Score: 19.) Two outside guests attended an all-hands meeting. One, Nick Pope, who investigated U.A.P.s at the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense and now does media commentary for such TV shows as “Ancient Aliens,” described alien sightings as “almost the ultimate low-probability, high-impact scenario.” The other, Josh McFarland, a venture capitalist, gave a business pep talk. “You’re looking for speeds, maneuvers, and accelerations outside of the natural envelope,” he said. “That’s the definition of a startup.” “If I was Sean Kirkpatrick,” Pope said, naming the then director of the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, “I would be saying, ‘Please take this for us.’ Because you’ll get some good stuff, but you get the crazies. There’s no way he can do his job if he’s inundated with public data, yet Congress has kind of mandated you to do that job.” “Well, the congressmen know us pretty well,” A said. “I’ve met with a lot of them, and they love us. ” Employees keep their levels of belief to themselves. A isn’t interested in trying to explain stubborn U.A.P. cases; she’s happy to entertain the possibility of ancient aliens, future humans, advanced fighters, billionaires’ antigravity toys, multidimensional projections, or humdrum drones. “U.A.P. is a new field,” she said. “It can’t be a category until you have data to work with. We’re doing the picks and shovels of that. And hopefully we’ll empower a lot of people to come up with their own theories. We’ll leave that to the Nobel Prize winners.” ♦ www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/the-truth-is-out-there-on-an-app
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Mar 30, 2024 12:19:11 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Mar 30, 2024 12:19:11 GMT -6
www.coasttocoastam.com/article/nasa-photographs-starfleet-logo-on-surface-of-mars/NASA Photographs 'Starfleet Logo' on Surface of MarsJune 13, 2019 By Tim Binnall / www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/tim-binnall/Proving that anomaly hunters aren't alone in spotting strange things out in space, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped an image of the Red Planet which seems to show Star Trek's iconic Starfleet logo. The amusing photo was taken by the satellite back in April and released by the space agency this week. Before one begins speculating that perhaps the odd formation was created by an alien race enamored with the classic TV series, NASA offered a more scientific explanation. www.uahirise.org/ESP_059708_1305According to the space agency, the 'logo' is actually the remnants of dunes which once sat on the surface of Mars. NASA explained that an eruption occurred on Mars "at some point" in the distant past and the mounds of sand were turned into veritable islands amid a sea of cooling lava. Over time, wind subsequently swept the tops of the dunes away and left "these 'footprints' in the lava plain." www.coasttocoastam.com/article/nasa-photographs-starfleet-logo-on-surface-of-mars/
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Apr 12, 2024 22:13:04 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Apr 12, 2024 22:13:04 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-study-of-ufos-goes-mainstream/vi-AA1imzyA#The study of UFOs goes mainstream - Oct 17th 2023 Oct 17, 2023
For decades, much of the discourse around UFOs has been confined to science fiction movies and novels. In the absence of government commentary on the topic, conspiracy theories around the U.S. hiding alien life and technology in secret compounds like Area 51 have run rampant. In an attempt to address potential national security questions, Washington, D.C. has taken up the charge to publicize and legitimize the study of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, as the military is calling UFOs.
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Apr 15, 2024 22:27:34 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Apr 15, 2024 22:27:34 GMT -6
mitechnews.com/guest-columns/nasa-astronaut-xlaims-aliens-prevented-nuclear-war-between-us-and-russia/NASA Astronaut Claims Aliens Prevented Nuclear War Between US And RussiaApril 14th, 2024 NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who was the sixth man to land on the Moon, has made the extraordinary claim that aliens intervened to prevent nuclear warfare on Earth. The former Apollo 14 participant unveiled striking information about unidentified flying objects seen by military personnel during weapons tests. He disclosed how unusual vehicles were reported around crucial missile sites and the significant White Sands area in New Mexico, where humanity detonated its first nuclear weapon in 1945. Mitchell, himself a native of New Mexico close to both the nuclear test site and Roswell – infamous for its purported UFO event, professed knowledge of the regions: “You don’t know the area like I do,” he underscored during his 2015 conversation with Mirror Online. Mitchell revealed that “White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons and that’s what the extraterrestrials were interested in,” reports the Daily Star. He contended that “they wanted to know about our military capabilities”. Based on his interactions, Mitchell categorically stated that extraterrestrials have been trying to prevent us from engaging in war and encourage peace on our planet. After landing on the moon, Mitchell openly expressed his belief in extraterrestrial entities, becoming a central figure in worldwide UFO communities. He hinted at hearing comparable stories from individuals employed at missile sites during the most unstable periods of the 20th Century. “I have spoken to many Air Force officers who worked at these silos during the Cold War,” he continued. “They told me UFOs were frequently seen overhead and often disabled their missiles. Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft. There was a lot of activity in those days.” Nick Pope, a former Ministry of Defence UFO researcher, spoke on Mitchell’s claims. “Edgar Mitchell is an honourable and truthful man, who I’ve had the privilege of meeting,” he said. “But insofar as I’m aware, most of his information on this issue comes not from things he’s experienced himself, but from things he’s been told by others. “Clearly, because of who he is, he’s had access to government, military and intelligence community personnel at the highest level, but because quite understandably he won’t name his sources, we can’t be certain these people were being straight with him, or indeed that they were privy to any classified information about UFOs.” Pope said the “idea that peace-loving extraterrestrials are here to warn humanity about our destructive ways” is popular with those who take a New Age view of the UFO phenomenon. “It’s a nice thought, but if I’m being sceptical, I’d point out that it’s almost exactly the plot of the classic 1951 sci-fi movie The Day the Earth Stood Still,” he added. “There have certainly been some intriguing UFO sightings around nuclear facilities, and around military bases more generally, but an alternative explanation is that some of these sightings are attributable to espionage activity involving secret spy planes or drones. “Given that the Universe is around 14 billion years old, if we’re being visited, it’s unlikely we’re dealing with a civilisation just a few hundred years ahead of us, so stories of aliens managing to disrupt a few of our weapons tests are far-fetched. Chances are they’d be millions of years ahead of us and could do anything they wanted to.” mitechnews.com/guest-columns/nasa-astronaut-xlaims-aliens-prevented-nuclear-war-between-us-and-russia/
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Post by auntym on Apr 24, 2024 12:01:20 GMT -6
Ancient Aliens: NASA's Secret ET Agenda (S10, E2) | Full Episode HISTORY
Apr 20, 2024
When German aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun joined the U.S. military and space programs after World War II, he quickly became one of the foremost scientists credited with developing the ballistic missile, the first American satellite and the enormous Saturn V rocket that enabled man to reach the moon. See more in Season 10, Episode 2, "NASA's Secret Agenda."
Watch all new episodes of Ancient Aliens, Fridays at 9/8c, and stay up to date on all of your favorite shows on The HISTORY Channel website at history.com/schedule.
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