People with phones and video gear captured strange glints in the sky in the year 2021.
Is it possible that these are satellites, technology deployed by foreign governments, falling space junk or even fake flying objects?
They could be aliens. What if extraterrestrials speeding in from Alpha Centauri crashed into New Mexico because they lacked brake fluid?
Many of the objects are identified. Others are still mysterious.
UAP will get more attention from both the scientific community and the federal government in the years to come, according to experts.
9 things we learned about aliens in 2021.
A report on UAPs was issued by the U.S. military and intelligence community. It was followed by congressional urging to establish a formal office to carry out a coordinated effort.
Our national security efforts rely on aerial supremacy, and these phenomena present a challenge to our dominance over the air. The inclusion of her UAP amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022, which was announced on December 9, 2021, is critical to keeping our strategic edge and keeping our nation safe.
The new office within the Pentagon, called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, will not focus on the search for alien life, but will provide a full spectrum of intelligence, as well as scientific and technical assessments, related to UAP.
Gillibrand said in a statement that one of the new UAP office's responsibilities will be to implement a plan to test scientific theories related to UAP characteristics and performances.
What now?
There is a concerted effort to build UAP-spotting hardware and to decide where it will be stationed. This year could be a turning point in the study of UAP/UFOs.
Mark Rodeghier is the scientific director of the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago.
The effort to detect, track and measure the phenomenon in real time has recently entered a new phase, according to Rodeghier.
Rodeghier believes that the efforts to gain new, fundamental knowledge about UAP/UFOs are likely to succeed and will set the stage for a new foundation of reliable, physical data.
The Galileo Project will search for extraterrestrial equipment. There are two branches. The first goal is to identify the nature of objects that are not related to comets or asteroids. Similar to the U.S. government, the second branch targets UAP.
The Galileo Project data will be open to the public and its scientific analysis will be transparent.
The Galileo research team includes more than 100 scientists who plan to build a telescope system on the roof of the Harvard College Observatory.
The system will record continuous video and audio of the entire sky, as well as track objects of interest. The Galileo Project will distribute copies of the first system in many locations once it is successful.
There is a possibility that aliens are actually human time travelers, which is attracting some attention within the scientific community.
Michael Masters, a professor of anthropology at Montana Technological University, said that the human time travelers model to explain unexplained phenomena has been gaining traction over the last couple years.
Masters is the author of the book "Identified Flying Objects", which examines the idea that aliens may be our distant human descendants using time travel to visit and study us, as members of their own hominin evolutionary past.
I think people are starting to realize that it makes a lot of sense in the context of how these ships operate, how they can achieve such incredible accelerations and decelerations if they are manipulating space-time in their own reference frame in and around these craft, and if we can.
The topic of the unexplained phenomena is being taken seriously by a broader group of professionals.
The more we eliminate the stigma that has surrounded this subject for so long, the quicker we can begin to understand it.
Masters said that the conversation can now move on from "Are these real?" to "What are they, and from where, or potentially when, are they coming?"
Robert Powell, an executive board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies in Austin, Texas, said that there is a lack of coordination among organizations involved in UAP detection equipment.
I believe that will improve as we go into 2022, he said.
SCU members are involved with the Galileo Project, as well as several other groups, including the UFO Data Acquisition Project.
The system has already been used by a group known as UAP, and is reasonably priced in the $2,000 to $5,000 range, depending on the accessories desired. Our goal is to coordinate these activities in a way that we use a system with standardized equipment to collect data.
Before that happens, Powell said, the groups need to plot out what the equipment is trying to measure and verify that the system can achieve that goal.
Kevin Knuth, an associate professor of physics at the University of Albany and vice president of UAPx, said that these are exciting times, as there are a growing number of groups focused on UAP detection and study.
He said that there are some challenges involved with the interaction of various groups.
While some coordination among groups might be beneficial, especially in the context of efficiency, the fact that we currently know precious little about UAPs implies that the potential for discovery is higher if the groups begin by working independently, trying different equipment and procedures and watching in different places.
The various groups will begin to use equipment and procedures that have been proven to work when the results are made public.
Knuth said that it was probably not wise to coordinate the groups at this time. Independent scientific studies benefit from this.
Knuth said the scientific groups are planning on publishing peer-reviewed scientific papers. He said that the upshot will be further advancement of the scientific studies of UAPs, while encouraging and compelling more scientists to get involved in studying what could very well be among the most important discoveries in human history.
Leonard David is the author of "Moon Rush: The New Space Race". David has been reporting on the space industry for more than 50 years.
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