NASA to establish Independent Study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

[Yazata]

Announced today by Dr. Z, the NASA Associate Administrator in charge of NASA's Science Directorate

https://twitter.com/Dr_ThomasZ/status/15...6424090627

(What follows comes from today's press release)

"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...

...Unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for both national security and air safety. Establishing which events are natural provides a key first step to identifying or mitigating such phenomena, which aligns with one of NASA's goals to ensure the safety of aircraft. There is no evidence UAPs are extra-terrestrial in orgin.

"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. "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 the 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."

The agency is not part of the Department of Defense's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force or its successor, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. NASA has, however, coordinated widely across the government regarding how to apply the tools of science to shed light on the nature and origin of unidentified aerial phenomena."...

..."Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can," said Spergel. "We will be identifying what data... exists, what else we should try to collect, and how best to analyze it."

The study is expected to take about nine months to complete. It will secure the counsel of experts in the scientific, aeronautics, and data analytics communities to focus on how best to collect new data and improve observations of UAPs.

Consistent with NASA's principles of openness, transparency, and scientific integrity, this report will be shared publicly," said Evans. "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."

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-set...=168612700

[Kornee]

"The agency is not part of the Department of Defense's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force or its successor, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. NASA has, however, coordinated widely across the government regarding how to apply the tools of science to shed light on the nature and origin of unidentified aerial phenomena."..."

As I posted elsewhere, 'the tools of science' were 'rigorously applied' way back beginning in the late 1940s, with the succession of investigative task forces, committees, panels etc. never getting beyond bland statements:
"a relative handful of puzzling cases remain unexplained".
But mostly the conclusions were per-ordained whitewashes driven by political imperatives.

Nothing really changes or will change with NASA's new 'independent initiative'.
Doomed ab initio to simply churn out the same old same old. With at most minor variations on the theme.
NEVER will 'science based' stamp-collecting exercises, that necessarily exclude the many reported supernatural/paranormal associations, get to the bottom of it.
Just an ever larger catalog of stamps to pour over.