9-14-2023 4:27pm

NASA UAP report finds no evidence of 'extraterrestrial origin' for UFO sightings Pt 1

Lorraine Mabbett Editor

A 1947 Roswell, NM incident heightened public interest in UFO's. Since then, numerous gov't projects have addressed the possibility of UFO's, as recently as 2021

Speaking at a much anticipated 10am 9/14/23 media briefing, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said: "The top takeaway from the study is that there is a lot more to learn...The NASA independent study team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin, but we don't know what these UAP are."UAP Independent Study Team - Final Report_0.pdf (nasa.gov)

The UAP Independent Study Team was established in 2022 as a nine-month evaluation of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs at which time NASA issued a cautionary statement of their anticipated conclusion: "There is no evidence UAPs are extra-terrestrial in origin" NASA to Set Up Independent Study on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | NASA

Previous USAF UFO/UAP studies include:

Project Mogul - The most famous UFO link to the Air Force was an incident in Roswell, NM in 1947. Forty years later the Air Force detailed it as "a balloon that was searching for Soviet Union nuclear test signals"
· Project Sign – 1948-1949 During which time Capt. Thomas F. Mantell and his F-51 Mustang crashed into a Kentucky farm in January 1948 after being assigned to look into a report by the highway patrol of a strange object floating above a farm in nearby Maysville. Captain Ruppelt, a WWII bombardier with five battle stars, three Air Medals and two Distinguished Flying Crosses was handling all Air Force UFO investigations. His opinion on the investigation of the accident "masterpiece in the art of weasel wording”. The First Air Force Pilot to Die Chasing a UFO Was Actually Chasing a Secret Balloon | Military.com Project Sign | History of the United States Air Force UFO Programs | Sign Oral History Project (sohp.us)
"Project Grudge"1949-1951 Project GRUDGE Report : Air Force : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
"Project Blue Book" - ran from 1952 - 1969 and more than 12,600 UFO reports were reviewed over those 17 years, including an investigation of Betty and Barney Hill, who claimed they were captured and examined by extraterrestrials in rural New Hampshire in September 1961. Project BLUE BOOK - Unidentified Flying Objects | National Archives The Condon Committee, more formally known as the University of Colorado under leadership from physicist Edward Condon. The group re-examined the information from Project Blue Book and published its efforts in the "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects" (also known as the Condon Report) in 1968.

Skyhook – Ohio State University astronomer had seen the “UFO” with a telescope and offered that it was probably a Skyhook balloon. The Skyhook balloon was a secret U.S. Navy atmospheric testing program that used high-altitude balloons to collect data.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force - 2020. By June 2021 Congress mandated a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) detailing the observations of the UAPTF, the FBI and the Office of Naval Intelligence; specifically144 UFO encounters documented by U.S. government sensors. The focus being sightings by Navy pilots between November 2004 and March 2021. Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf (dni.gov)
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A group of scientists, authors, historians and interested parties have accumulated the history of the USAF interest and study of UFO’s. Sign Oral History Project | Welcome (sohp.us) And reference the work of Thomas Tullen. History of the United States Air Force UFO Programs | Sign Oral History Project (sohp.us)

The nomenclature has changed from UFO to UAP unidentified aerial phenomena and then redesignated as unidentified anomalous phenomena. UAP was adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense as a means to include unidentifiable objects/events in various locations:

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