In May, NASA’s UAP study team held its first public meeting. According to Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s UFO office and a speaker at the NASA-hosted forum, of the 800 reports received by his office by late May, the most common observations are of “spheres,” 3-13 feet in size and “white, silver, [or] translucent” in color.

Intriguingly, sensors have observed such objects traveling at speeds ranging from “stationary to Mach 2,” or twice the speed of sound, with “no thermal exhaust detected.”

Kirkpatrick described these perplexing encounters in greater detail as he presented footage of a “metallic,” “spherical orb” recorded by a surveillance drone in the Middle East. Referring to the object in the video, Kirkpatrick stated, “this is a typical example of the thing that we see most of. We see these [‘metallic orbs’] all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers.”

Kirkpatrick’s comments should have immediately piqued the scientific curiosity of every individual in the room. How, after all, can spherical objects, lacking wings or apparent means of propulsion, remain stationary or travel at the speed of sound? Moreover, how could they conduct such remarkable maneuvers without emitting any heat signature?

One might have expected every scientist’s hand to shoot up immediately during the question-and-answer period following Kirkpatrick’s presentation. Yet not one of the NASA panel’s 16 members asked Kirkpatrick anything about his extraordinary comments.

It raises the question: Are UFOs the death knell of scientific curiosity and inquisitiveness?

This excerpt speaks volumes about the current scientific effort, in my opinion.