I tittered to myself this Thursday morning when the BBC Breakfast News program discussed AI-generated YouTube
videos offering -what the BBC called, misinformation. A young man from their Newsround (for children) explained
that many youngsters believe what they see on YouTube and that most of it is click-bait.
He also reported to the two dunderheads sitting on the sofa with him that Flying Saucers don't really exist.
Here's a piece from the Newsround website posted a couple of hours later. (After NASA's release of their 'findings')
"...Nasa has been looking into reports of mysterious sightings in the skies and it says it's not found any concrete
evidence they are aliens... but admits it's possible that they could be. The space agency says there's "a lot more
to learn" about UFOs - or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), as it calls them - as it presented a report
following a long-awaited study into hundreds of reports of sightings.
The Nasa experts said there was no evidence that UAPs came from outer space, but they admitted that they didn't
know exactly what many of them are or what witnesses and recordings actually showed. The report says most UFO
sightings have been explained, but there are a small handful which cannot be immediately identified as "known
human-made or natural phenomena."
Whilst often they are called UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects - by the public, space experts now prefer to use the
term UAP which stands for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Some experts feel that after years of movies and books,
UFOs make people think of science-fiction and not scientific study. UAPs can be anything from an odd sighting in
the sky, to aircraft being used in the wrong way..."
And here's France24's version:
videos offering -what the BBC called, misinformation. A young man from their Newsround (for children) explained
that many youngsters believe what they see on YouTube and that most of it is click-bait.
He also reported to the two dunderheads sitting on the sofa with him that Flying Saucers don't really exist.
Here's a piece from the Newsround website posted a couple of hours later. (After NASA's release of their 'findings')
"...Nasa has been looking into reports of mysterious sightings in the skies and it says it's not found any concrete
evidence they are aliens... but admits it's possible that they could be. The space agency says there's "a lot more
to learn" about UFOs - or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), as it calls them - as it presented a report
following a long-awaited study into hundreds of reports of sightings.
The Nasa experts said there was no evidence that UAPs came from outer space, but they admitted that they didn't
know exactly what many of them are or what witnesses and recordings actually showed. The report says most UFO
sightings have been explained, but there are a small handful which cannot be immediately identified as "known
human-made or natural phenomena."
Whilst often they are called UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects - by the public, space experts now prefer to use the
term UAP which stands for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Some experts feel that after years of movies and books,
UFOs make people think of science-fiction and not scientific study. UAPs can be anything from an odd sighting in
the sky, to aircraft being used in the wrong way..."
And here's France24's version:
Quote:NASA says new program will search for UFOs, declines to identify its directorFrance24:
NASA on Thursday officially joined the search for UFOs -- but reflecting the stigma attached to the field,
the US space agency wouldn't identify the director of the new program tasked with tracking mystery flying objects.
'The official's appointment is the result of a year-long NASA fact-finding report into what NASA calls "unidentified
anomalous phenomena (UAP)." "At NASA, it's in our DNA to explore -- and to ask why things are the way they are,"
NASA chief Bill Nelson said.
An independent team of 16 researchers concluded in the report that the search for UAPs "demands a rigorous,
evidence-based approach." NASA is well positioned to play a prominent role, thanks to its satellite capabilities
and other technical assets. But the agency stressed in its report that any findings of possible extraterrestrial origin
"must be the hypothesis of last resort -- the answer we turn to only after ruling out all other possibilities."
"We want to shift the conversation about UAP from sensationalism to science," Nelson said.
Even if NASA has long explored the heavens, hunting for the origin, identity and purpose of a growing number of
unexplained flying objects over planet Earth is bringing unprecedented challenges. Military and civilian pilots keep
offering a multitude of reports on strange sightings. But decades of movies and sci-fi books about aliens mean the
entire topic is mostly laughed off by the public as the territory of cranks.
That atmosphere explained the unusual decision by NASA to decline to identify the lead UAP official's identity.
"We need to ensure that the scientific process and methods are free," said Daniel Evans, who worked on the
year-long NASA report leading to the announcement. "Some of the threats and the harassment have been
beyond the pale quite frankly," Evans said.
800 'events'
There have been more than 800 "events" collected over 27 years, of which two to five percent are thought to be
possibly anomalous, the report's authors said during a May meeting. These are defined as "anything that is not
readily understandable by the operator or the sensor," or "something that is doing something weird," said team
member Nadia Drake.
The US government has begun taking the issue of UAPs more seriously in recent years, in part due to concerns
that they are related to foreign surveillance. One example of a still unexplained phenomenon was a flying metallic
orb spotted by an MQ-9 drone at an undisclosed location in the Middle East, which was shown to Congress in April.
NASA's work, which relies on unclassified material, is separate from a parallel Pentagon investigation, though the
two are coordinating on matters of how to apply scientific tools and methods. In July, a former US intelligence officer
made headlines when he told a congressional committee he "absolutely" believes the government is in possession
of unidentified anomalous phenomena -- as well as remains of their alien operators.
"My testimony is based on information I've been given by individuals with a longstanding track record of legitimacy
and service to this country -many of whom also shared compelling evidence in the form of photography, official
documentation and classified oral testimony," David Grusch told lawmakers.
Earlier this week, the alleged bodies of two "non-human" beings were presented during a congressional hearing in
Mexico, generating a mixture of surprise, disbelief and ridicule on social media. The purported mummified remains,
which had a grayish color and a human-like body form, were brought by Jaime Maussan, a controversial Mexican
journalist and researcher who reported finding them in Peru in 2017...'
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