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.
That’s because it’s all propaganda to manipulate the public. It’s all bullshit.
Why do you think that?
Mostly because there isn’t any hard evidence of their claims
propaganda to manipulate the public.
And where is the hard evidence for this statement?
Show me the slightest bit of evidence that there are aliens. If you can’t then stfu.
We already know you don’t have evidence of anything other then being manipulated by those claiming there are aliens.
At some point you just need to call bullshit instead of falling for their shit over and over and over again.
Show me the slightest bit of evidence that there are aliens. If you can’t then stfu.
I never said aliens, you did. I’m saying our military and commercial pilots are seeing anomalous things in the sky. These things are being picked up on multiple sensor systems and we should investigate what these things are.
We already know you don’t have evidence of anything other then being manipulated by those claiming there are aliens
Let’s say a homicide detective announced that he’s built a murder case including names, locations, dates, witness testimony and photographic evidence, and all of this information has been given to prosecutors and the justice department. I don’t think it’s appropriate to say that there’s “no evidence” just because the public hasn’t seen anything, but that’s exactly what people keep doing on this topic. Evidence in an ongoing investigation can’t be released, but this is still serious and newsworthy so we treat it as such.
We have large portions of our Congress taking this seriously, enacting very specific legislation in regards to UAP. If you can’t read between the lines with that, I don’t know what to tell you. Again I’m not saying ALIENS, I’m saying there is something going on.
Maybe we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
Good for them. Not approaching UFOs scientifically is a token to NASA’s sound science.
Isn’t the entire purpose of science to explain and understand the natural world? I would think understanding a true unknown would not only be exciting, but a priority.
Edit: Even Neil deGrasse Tyson, who genuinely believes this is all nonsense, feels we should investigate it. He has even applauded NASA and Avi Loeb’s Galileo project for their willingness to delve into the matter.
I think NDT is more skeptical than in denial. I think he was in Theories of Everything when he said his real problem is people who go from “we don’t know what that was” to “that was aliens”.
What I got most from his TOE interview is this is a man who gets really upset when you suggest he may not know something in a field he believes he is an expert in. I think if you showed him convincing proof of “something” he would want to know more. Until then, he’s not going to publicly change his position.
I think NDT is more skeptical than in denial. I think he was in Theories of Everything when he said his real problem is people who go from “we don’t know what that was” to “that was aliens”.
I enjoyed how much Curt pushed back on him. It reminded me of how J Allen Hynek pushed back against Sagan.
What I got most from his TOE interview is this is a man who gets really upset when you suggest he may not know something in a field he believes he is an expert in. I think if you showed him convincing proof of “something” he would want to know more. Until then, he’s not going to publicly change his position.
I agree with you. That’s my assessment as well.
The more funding and attention goes to finding fairy tale characters, the less goes to understanding and dealing with major real lige challenges like global warming.
fairy tale characters
I think a bipartisan Congress would disagree with you here.
major real lige challenges like global warming
I concur that this is a significant life challenge. However, I believe we already possess the necessary knowledge to address it. In my view, only changes in policy and corporate behavior can resolve this issue.