Nicola Fox, NASA associate administrator of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate, said it is “really disheartening to hear of the harassment that our panelists have faced online all because they’re studying this topic.”
The "flying saucer" entered the cultural conversation in 1947 thanks to a private pilot named Kenneth Arnold. What he saw in the sky in Washington state would lead to a fascination with space visitors that has lasted since. NASA has formed a new committee to take another look.NASA talked publicly Wednesday about the work of its independent study team formed last year to take a new look at “events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomenon.
Along with that new look comes a new name for the objects - “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” - to replace the familiar Unidentified Flying Objects . “Conversations like this are the first stop to reducing the stigma in UAP reporting,” said Daniel Evans, assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. There has been no evidence that UAPs relate to aliens, he said, but there is a concern for national security.
Nicola Fox, NASA associate administrator of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate, called the new study important and said it is “really disheartening to hear of the harassment that our panelists have faced online all because they’re studying this topic.”Panel Chair and astrophysicist David Spergel said public opinion is a big challenge to UAP research.
Proper study needs good data, Fox agreed, and there isn’t enough clear data now. Data from eyewitnesses and background images can be muddled and inconclusive, she said. Classified data isn’t the answer, Fox said, because most classified government images are classified because of the equipment that collected the data, not the data itself. Fox invited viewers and readers to explore its archives at
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