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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:
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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