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UAP Independent Study Team Final Report

NASA · 2023-09-14 · 36 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the final report of NASA's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team, a 16-member external panel chaired by Dr. David Spergel, with a foreword by Dr. Nicola Fox. The report says it is not a review of past incidents. It concludes that UAP analysis is limited by poor data, calibration and metadata, and that NASA should support AARO's whole-of-government effort. It recommends using NASA satellites, commercial imagery, AI, crowdsourcing apps and the Aviation Safety Reporting System, and reducing stigma around reporting.

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  • p. 26 24 WORK PRODUCTS: DISCUSSION The panel's responses to the eight charge elements in the Terms…
  • p. 27 …With its emphasis on open scientific inquiry, NASA can complement AARO’s work. The following sections…
  • p. 28 …leveraging public and private partnerships—for example, working with commercial partners in Earth-observing satellite data…
  • p. 29 …the civilian aerospace domain by starting that work within the Agency itself. NASA can look at…
  • p. 31 …In science, data need to be reproducible, and hypotheses falsifiable—the scientific method works by systematically…
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An orbital sunrise photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station.
FRAMEWORK OF RECOMMENDATIONS
Although AARO leads the whole-of-government response to UAP, the
panel recommends that NASA play an essential role within that framework.
NASA should leverage its core capabilities and expertise to determine
whether it should take a leading or supporting role in implementing a
given recommendation.
ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT
This report is organized as follows. We present a systematic response
to the eight charge elements that formed the Terms of Reference that
NASA provided to the Independent Study Team, followed by a detailed
set of conclusions and recommendations. These responses stemmed
from a series of sub-panel reports that the entire team deliberated in full
at the public meeting held on May 31, 2023, all of which are included
as work products toward the end of this report for full public transparency.

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