Last year NASA created a 16-member blue-ribbon UAP study team, which seeks to improve the scientific understanding of UAPs by scouring the space agency’s vast archives and assets, as well as other civilian and commercial data sources, for relevant sightings. government are also increasing their investigations of UAPs. The agency coordinated it with the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which the Department of Defense formed last year to synchronize all its various efforts to study past and present reports of “anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects” and their associated implications for national security.īeyond the realm of defense, other parts of the U.S. “This increased reporting allows more opportunities to apply rigorous analysis and resolve events,” ODNI’s recently released report states. Future ODNI reports will appear annually, as required by a recently passed law from UAP-savvy legislators. In the U.S., the upsurge of UAP encounters and government interest is palpable-underscored by the January 12 release of the unclassified version of an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report on UAPs to Congress. It should be no surprise, then, that there seems to be an interlinked uptick in UAP reports and in organized efforts to study them. Today pilots, military personnel and civilians alike have more ways than ever before to observe and record strange occurrences in the sky-and more reasons to take any unexplained sightings seriously. Overlapping waves of technological innovation have made flying machines-remote-operated drones, especially-much more capable and abundant, while also making smartphones and other sophisticated data-gathering equipment near-ubiquitous. So it has been throughout history, from biblical tales of angelic encounters to more modern accounts of flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects (UFOs).īut leaving aside the recent rebranding of UFOs to the more neutral term “unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), not everything about the perennial matter of airborne oddities is the same as it ever was.
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane-or a weather balloon or a rocket or a satellite! No, wait! It’s-an interstellar probe from elsewhere in the galaxy?Īs always, there is no shortage of mysterious things to see in Earth’s skies-and no shortage of potential explanations for them that don’t invoke alien civilizations frolicking between the stars.
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