NASA is hosting a public meeting on Wednesday, May 31 at 10:30 a.m. EDT for its independent study team on identifying and evaluating data about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). A media teleconference will also be held at the end of the meeting. The full meeting will be available to watch on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website until 2:30 p.m. You can watch online at https://www.nasa.gov/live.
UAP (i.e. UFOs) refers to occurrences in the sky that cannot be identified as known natural phenomena or aircraft using scientific methods. The primary goal of this public meeting is to hold final deliberations before the agency’s independent study team publishes a report this summer. The report will outline how to evaluate and study UAP/UFOs using data, technology, and the tools of science. This is a priority for NASA and will inform them on what data could be collected in the future to shed light on the nature and origin of UAP.
The meeting is governed by the Federal Advisory Committee Act and includes an opportunity for public comment. Questions can be submitted starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 12, at https://nasa.cnf.io/sessions/hh4r/.
A virtual post-meeting media teleconference will be held at 3 p.m., which will be live-streamed on the NASA website. Participants include Dan Evans, Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for Research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, David Spergel, President of the Simons Foundation and Chair of NASA’s UAP independent study team, and other members of the team.
To participate by telephone, media must RSVP to Katherine Rohloff at katherine.a.rohloff@nasa.gov no later than two hours before the event. The UAP independent study team is made up of 16 community experts from diverse fields relevant to potential methods of study for unidentified anomalous phenomena. NASA commissioned the nine-month study to examine UAP from a scientific perspective and create a roadmap for how to use data and the tools of science to advance our understanding of UAP. Currently, the limited high-quality observations of UAP make it impossible to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of such events. A clean feed of the meeting will be available on the agency’s YouTube channel.
