The night sky over Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2020. A recent report claims there may be UFOs lurking in the skies of Kyiv, but the country's national science agency thinks otherwise.

The night sky over Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2020. A recent report claims there may be UFOs lurking in the skies of Kyiv, but the country's national science agency thinks otherwise. (Image credit: Getty)

The recent reports of UAP flying through the skies of Ukraine have been discredited by the national science agency.

The report, released in mid-September, described a significant number of objects whose nature is not clear, such asphantoms which appeared completely black against the sky and seemed to zip through the atmosphere.

The report's authors described these phantom objects as UAP, the scientific community's preferred name for unidentified flying objects, but made no attempts to exclude more obvious explanations.

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The UAP report was discredited by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

There were significant errors in determining distances to the observed objects in the processing and interpretation of the results. The report didn't meet professional requirements for publication of the results of scientific research, and the team ordered that the name be removed from the document.

Where's the fire?

The MAO researchers looked at the observations of strange, fast- moving objects that were detected by one of the observatories. The team inferred the distance, size and speed of these objects based on how much background light each one appeared to be blocking, concluding that many of the mysterious objects were roughly the size of an airplane.

By only looking at the data from a single telescope, the researchers seem to have underestimated the distances and locations of the objects, as well as the size and speed of them. The work has not been peer reviewed.

The correct way to see distances is triangulation, where you see the same object from different angles. They don't have that information.

If the phantom objects were as large, as fast and as high in the sky as the Ukrainian team suggested, then they would produce a giant fireball. The fact that these objects were completely black doesn't prove that they are levitating technology, but it does suggest that the astronomer messed up their location.

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Aliens, bombs, or bugs?

The objects could be seen as bullets if you moved them another 10 times.

It could be insects, like a fly moving at a high speed, and it would appear dark.

The astronomer not only made errors in determining the objects' distances, but also failed to exclude more obvious explanations for the spotted objects.

Natural phenomena or artificial objects may not be included in the observed UAPs according to the scientists at theNASU.

The impact of Russia's invasion of the country should not be ignored, even though it's not clear what the Ukrainian astronomer saw.

It's likely that at least some UAP observed by American military personnel are "technologies deployed by China, Russia, another nation, or a non country."

Birds and balloons could be one of the explanations for UAP, according to the ODNI report.

Aliens are not mentioned in the report as a possible explanation. There is a chance for this to happen in the U.S. The U.S. Congress approved funding for the Department of Defense to open an office to manage reports of unexplained flying objects.

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It was originally published on Live Science