Some more UFO stuff

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The Face and the Name of Nasa's new Alien Hunter.

Meet NASA's UFO boss: Former Pentagon liaison Mark McInerney is revealed as head of new
taskforce - after the space agency backtracks on plan to keep his identity a secret

*Mark McInerney will become US space agency's director of research into UFOs
*Officials initially refused to reveal his identity amid fears he would be harassed


Go gerrum' Mark!

'The inaugural boss of NASA's newly-created UFO research division has been named as a former meteorologist
and liaison to the Pentagon. Mark McInerney will become the US space agency's director of research into
unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), more commonly known as unidentified flying objects. NASA
officials initially refused to reveal McInerney's identity amid fears he would be harassed, before later backtracking
on the decision.

Speaking about the new UFO boss following the release of the agency's highly-anticipated study into more than
800 UAP sightings, NASA's associate administrator Nicola Fox told reporters: 'They have been working there a while
now, during the study, to help be a point of contact.' But when directly asked whether she could name the official,
Fox replied: 'We will not give his name out.'

All changed hours later, however, when NASA sent out a press release that included McInerney's name and revealed
he previously worked as the agency's liaison to the Pentagon. There has been no explanation as to why McInerney's
identity was revealed when NASA initially declined to do so.

However, it emerged at last night's briefing that several members of the independent study group had received
threats, hate mail and been ridiculed on social media. Some were even apparently told to stay away from researching
UFOs because it could damage their scientific credibility.

'That's in part why we are not splashing the name of our new director out there, because science needs to be free,'
Dan Evans, the NASA official in charge of the study, originally said. 'Some of [the incidents] rose to actual threats.'

The newly-formed UFO research division will continue studying UAPs, even though the space agency yesterday ruled
out that aliens were to blame for some 800 such sightings over almost three decades. These are defined as objects
'that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena from a scientific perspective'.

In a landmark report commissioned by NASA last year and published on Thursday, an independent panel of 16
experts stressed that there was 'no reason to conclude' that any of the sightings they analysed were extraterrestrial
in origin. However, the team did warn that mysterious flying objects were a 'self-evident' threat to American airspace.

Even though they poured cold water on the extraterrestrial hypothesis, NASA's experts did not deny the possibility of a
'potential unknown alien technology operating in Earth's atmosphere.' Their 33-page report called for NASA to utilise its
technological might to continue studying UFOs because many cases remain unsolved -and researchers still have no idea
what some of these sightings are. NASA chief Bill Nelson announced that a new director for UFO research would help
implement the panel's recommendations.

Following a news briefing setting out the findings, he said: 'I want to thank the independent study team for providing
insight on how NASA can better study and analyse UAP in the future.  'NASA's new Director of UAP Research will
develop and oversee the implementation of NASA's scientific vision for UAP research, including using NASA's expertise
to work with other agencies to analyse UAP and applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to search the skies
for anomalies. 'NASA will do this work transparently for the benefit of humanity.'

They concluded that in their scientific view, the bar for proof of extraterrestrial visitors to our planet must be kept high.
'In the search for life beyond Earth, extraterrestrial life itself must be the hypothesis of last resort,' the panel wrote,
'the answer we turn to only after ruling out all other possibilities.' 'As Sherlock Holmes said, "Once you eliminate the
impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth".'

Back in May, NASA's independent study team shared their preliminary observations -that up to 98 per cent of reported
UAP sightings can be explained away. Just 2 to 5 percent are considered 'possibly really anomalous', the panel added,
but a lack of high-quality data is hampering researchers' ability to apply 'rigorous scientific scrutiny' to the mystery-solving.

NASA's study is separate from the Pentagon's investigation into UAPs, which saw US lawmakers hear first-hand
accounts of UFO sightings from former members of the military earlier this year. That Pentagon study, led by the
Defense Department's new All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and directed by Pentagon physicist Dr.
Sean Kirkpatrick, has received 350 reports of UFOs in the past two years.  Almost half, or precisely 171 of those
UFO cases, remain unexplained.

Although their is cross-collaboration, the US space agency's panel is focused on the civilian, unclassified side of this
effort, while AARO leads the charge on examining UAPs in coordination with the intelligence and military communities.
Ever since the first sighting more than 75 years ago, popular culture has usually depicted a UFO as a flying saucer
emitting a powerful halo of light. But that could finally change following the official release of information from the
Pentagon about the mysterious aerial phenomena.

Based on clues from reported sightings, the typical UFO has a round shape, usually described as spherical or an orb,
with a white or silver colour, often translucent. It also has a size of between 3 and 13 feet (1 to 4 metres) and usually
travels through the air at a height just below commercial passenger planes. The Pentagon has also released a hotspot
map that reveals the location of reported UFO sightings, including Japan and the Middle East...'

Archived Daily Mail Article:

(Notice the Americanised version of the word 'Defense' in the above article. The Daily Mail prides itself of
being a British newspaper and so I would suggest someone NOT from their London base wrote this!)